Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

He was many things to a lot of people while he lived, and he was all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat big family. He really was: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-banked burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet… These two novellas are both about Seymour Glass—the oldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family—as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy. The Glasses are one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully-realized families in all fiction.