Where do we go, Dad?

Where do we go, Dad? A question repeated by Thomas, the narrator's son, constantly. It is the only question he can pronounce clearly, and the narrator, with bitter sarcasm, waits for the disabled child's satisfying answer. But we discover through the pages of the novel the only painful truth, which is that no matter the answer, it will not stop him from repeating his only question because, in short, he simply does not understand. As for Matthew, the second disabled son, he can only throw his ball far away, then ask his parents to bring it back to him. Perhaps the only moment he feels comfortable is when one of them holds his hand and they go together to look for the ball until the moment comes when he throws his ball very far and cannot find anyone to help him find it again, and he dies at the age of fifteen. The novel seems painful, revolving around the realistic details of the world of the narrator's two mentally disabled children, but in truth, it is very sweet, to the point that its sweetness almost erases all this pain.