When Skateboards Will Be Free (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
MY FATHER DOESN’T KNOW, BUT when I was a little boy my mother hung a black-and-white framed photograph of him over my bed. It had been taken about a year before I was born, and it shows my father standing behind a podium giving a speech to delegates at a political conference somewhere in the Midwest. In the photograph he is wearing a white shirt and a dark tie and a dark wool jacket, and pinned to his jacket is his name tag, and he is balding and slightly unshaven, and he has his glasses on. Covering the front of the podium is a portrait of a man or woman whose face is entirely obscured by a sign that says Dekalb. My father is glancing down at his notes as he speaks—looking as calm and self-assured as always. Eventually I figured out that the hidden face hanging in front of the podium was not that of an Iranian revolutionary, as I had originally assumed, but of Che Guevara. This was an exhilarating revelation for me, because while my father felt like a stranger, Che did not, and so I felt somewhat included.
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