I kind of feel like he does mention a sister in another book than this, but I don't remember exactly where. In another book he actually mentions his mom coming to visit him and Wolfe, but I'm skeptical of that. (Also in this book Archie makes another reference to Wolfe's mom in Budapest! I thought the earlier mention was the only one.)
I find the mentions of Wolfe's family so much less weird than Archie's, though! I suspect it's probably just because Wolfe isn't the narrator, and also actually has people in his life who knew him then, like Marko Vukcic, but I can completely believe him having at least some relations back in Europe. Whereas Archie seems so completely cut off from Chillicothe and everything to do with it; he doesn't mention family or even friends in any of his random anecdotes, so the - two? - times he does it comes over to me as kind of unlikely and strange. Not that the whole series is about Archie Goodwin's Chillicothe Adventures or something, but someone who talks as much as Archie does mentioning a sister twice in a forty-year career?
(And his MOM? I thought he specifically said he was an orphan, at least once?)
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Date: 2010-04-25 12:11 pm (UTC)I kind of feel like he does mention a sister in another book than this, but I don't remember exactly where. In another book he actually mentions his mom coming to visit him and Wolfe, but I'm skeptical of that. (Also in this book Archie makes another reference to Wolfe's mom in Budapest! I thought the earlier mention was the only one.)
I find the mentions of Wolfe's family so much less weird than Archie's, though! I suspect it's probably just because Wolfe isn't the narrator, and also actually has people in his life who knew him then, like Marko Vukcic, but I can completely believe him having at least some relations back in Europe. Whereas Archie seems so completely cut off from Chillicothe and everything to do with it; he doesn't mention family or even friends in any of his random anecdotes, so the - two? - times he does it comes over to me as kind of unlikely and strange. Not that the whole series is about Archie Goodwin's Chillicothe Adventures or something, but someone who talks as much as Archie does mentioning a sister twice in a forty-year career?
(And his MOM? I thought he specifically said he was an orphan, at least once?)