Lenny tries to impress his mother with his library research skills, and presents her with a few photocopied articles about thyroid surgery, including the statistics of how common thyroid nodules are, and how simple the procedure is. But his mother skims through the pages without really reading them, thanking him but saying that she doesn’t want to know too much. Lenny can’t understand this, but lets it go. She may not like too much information, but he craves it, and armed with his research tools he sends away for mail order catalogs from a spectrum of small renegade publishers that specialize in everything from imported tae kwon do books to drug cultivation. And he continues his research at the library, where he begins running into the limitations of a small suburban public library—they don’t carry any esoteric magazines—but he learns about magazine stores in Manhattan that carry many of the current issues. Manhattan is only a forty-minute train ride away. The details of his grandmother’s arrival are being worked out, and he can see this creating more friction between his parents.
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