The Debt Book
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Summary
After the wall collapsed at my sister’s college acceptance party, crushing fifteen people to death, my mother made a “Debt Book.”
From then on, whenever anyone in town needed help, she pushed me to the front of the line.
When old Mrs. Henderson fell into the river, my mother shoved me in, even though I didn't know how to swim.
"This is what we owe the Hendersons. Your sister's health is too fragile. You go save her."
Choking on water until I coughed up blood, I finally managed to drag the old woman to the shore.
But my mother just stood on the riverbank, gripping her Debt Book, writing:
