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Mr. Eyman draws a picture of “an increasingly resentful child . . . dragged through a succession of cow towns and surrogate fathers.”

The Ku Klux Klan lurked as a constant threat, and resentful Whites were ever present.

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The novel relates the partly autobiographical story of Charley Klein, who is raised in community housing in the Bronx, N.Y., in the 1930s by an overworked mother and a resentful, invalid father.

The abrupt shift left Harvey resentful and disenfranchised.

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He has two children that live at home with us and the financial burden falls on me, which is mostly fine; I’m their stepmom, after all, but I’m getting resentful.

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