{"id":32815,"date":"2014-06-19T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=32815"},"modified":"2018-11-11T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T22:02:03","slug":"bingos-run-by-james-a-levine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/bingos-run-by-james-a-levine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingo’s Run by James A. Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bingo's<\/a>If, like me, you have trouble with accents, dialects, or unfamiliar vernacular, choose audible here. Narrator Peter Macon couldn’t be smoother and clearer: I couldn’t figure out “meejit” on the page,\u00a0but in\u00a0Macon’s voice, no problem (turns out I’m just the “eejit” who can’t understand ‘midget,’ egads)!<\/p>\n

Bingo Mwolo is that ‘meejit,’ a self-described “growth retard” who looks more like a little boy\u00a0than his full 15 years. Lest you have any illusions of childish innocence, he’s as streetwise as he has to\u00a0be to survive on slum streets: he’s seen and experienced far too much death than destruction than anyone ever should.<\/p>\n

Being\u00a0“the greatest runner in Kibera, Nairobi, and probably the world” keeps Bingo\u00a0ahead of the pack. His speed \u2013 and his seeming loyalty \u2013 makes him a highly prized asset to Wolf, a powerful\u00a0drug kingpin.\u00a0When Bingo\u00a0witnesses a horrific\u00a0murder, he’s forced to go into hiding at St. Michael’s Orphanage … which is anything but holy. Father Matthew, its white proprietor, is not exactly a man of God, but he manages to place Bingo with an American woman \u2013 a divorced art dealer \u2013 who has arrived in Kenya allegedly intending\u00a0to adopt. Bingo knows he needs to get away from both\u00a0Wolf and Father Matthew’s surveillance\u00a0\u2013 he’s\u00a0got a few\u00a0hidden resources of his own\u00a0\u2013 and the glamorous, mysterious Mrs. Steele just may his ticket to freedom on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n

Just who is scamming whom is a twisted, (im)moral tale of desperation, double\/triple crosses, and even a little\u00a0hope. From dirty officials to false gods, from\u00a0genius artists\u00a0to con-artists, from murdered mothers to murderous fathers,\u00a0<\/em>James A. Levine’s latest is a rollercoaster ride of never knowing who to trust, unreliable narrators notwithstanding.\u00a0Run<\/em> is another dire tale of what happens to discarded children: as he did in\u00a0The Blue Notebook<\/em><\/a>, Levine gives voice to an otherwise invisible child. And Bingo certainly\u00a0has much he needs to say.<\/p>\n

Levine again proves his neverstopping impressive mettle: he’s a\u00a0Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and professor<\/a>; co-director of Obesity Solutions, a project of Mayo and Arizona State University<\/a> (where he also professors); the\u00a0<\/em>treadmill desk pioneer<\/a> who is all about NEATly Gruve<\/a>-ing\u00a0to keep fit;\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0once more\u00a0an internationally bestselling novelist.\u00a0If nothing else, he surely knows about running\u00a0\u2013 clinics, projects, bodies, and stories, all.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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