(On "The Watsons Go to Birmingham....") The "Weird Watsons" live in Flint, Michigan, in the 1960s. Wilona and Daniel, and their children: Byron, Kenny, and Joetta. Kenny, our narrator, is self-conscious about his lazy eye, and about his smarts. Teachers sometimes parade him around and ask him to show off his own intelligence, as "inspiration" to the other kids. (The "other kids" see things differently.) Kenny also feels anxiety about his older brother Byron, thirteen, a charismatic bully. Byron can be mean and self-absorbed. He can be a danger--playing with matches (while staging a film in which "Byron defeats the Nazi parachuters"), stealing from the grocery allotment, terrorizing children on the playground. Wilona and Daniel have their own problems: Money is tight, Daniel sometimes makes unwise purchases, and also what do you do when one of your kids freezes his tongue to the side of the car, in the winter? All ...