Tony is big, strong, and prone to fits of anger. Tony blames her for this, and for the Drome. She tells him that his father lives in New Mexico and doesn’t know he exists. Sometimes, he rides his bike through all the neighborhoods just to see them, listening to the rapper MF Doom, whose music he likes for lines such as, “Got more soul than a sock with a hole.” He occasionally speaks with his mother, who is in jail, on the phone. Tony sympathizes with his ancestors’ plight he would hate to have to leave Oakland. Maxine says he is a medicine man, deserving of respect, and she tells him the history of colonization. Tony's IQ percentile is the lowest possible, but his psychologist, Karen, affirms his intelligence. Although he is 21 years old now, he doesn’t drink-he figures he got enough as a baby from his mom. He thinks of it as a reminder of his history. At the time, he misheard the name of the syndrome, and it became known to him as the Drone. Tony recalls when his guardian, Maxine, told him he had fetal alcohol syndrome. The first chapter opens with a series of memories and thoughts from Tony Loneman.
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