![]() ![]() ![]() Leo manages to befriend other damaged psyches, though, and together they grow up, grow apart, and reunite in an attempt to save one of their own from a dark end. His parents send him to a sanitarium where he experiences psychological horrors only a handful of people might ever understand. The 10-year-old's death nearly destroys Leo. South of Broad begins with the suicide of Leo's older brother Stephen in the late ’60s. ![]() It's a well-intentioned moral that could have been more affecting if South of Broad didn't fall apart at the end. The fact that he's also the ringleader of an audaciously diverse group of friends suggests a kind of redemption for this former seat of the Confederacy. Leo, however, sees himself reflected in the neighborhood's gorgeous cityscape. His father is a science teacher his mom a former nun. Living south of Broad is a point of pride for Conroy's hero, Leopold Bloom King. The title South of Broad, Pat Conroy's first novel in nearly 15 years, refers to the informal name given to a section of Charleston, S.C., almost exclusively inhabited for generations by the city's de facto aristocracy. ![]()
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