Our narrator, when he's a teenager, realizes that his family is unusual, has unusual dynamics in it, although it's not been a secret along the way. He's never really thought about it until, of course, he's beginning to come of age.
Despite a constitutional system built on the premise that all eligible citizens should be able to vote for their leaders, the U.S. actually has a system that denies that right to vote to millions of its citizens, says the author of a new book called "Stealing Democracy." Law professor Spencer Overton surveys the different ways incumbent officeholders manipulate the voting rules to insure their own reelection, effectively making it harder for entire blocs of people to vote.
Our narrator, when he's a teenager, realizes that his family is unusual, has unusual dynamics in it, although it's not been a secret along the way. He's never really thought about it until, of course, he's beginning to come of age. 
