But when Paul signs up for Lake Windsor Middle School, his mother tells the principal that Paul needs help because he is legally blind. Because of his bad eyes, he has special goggles that he wears when he plays. Paul loves to play soccer he’s the goalie. They also don’t seem to pay any attention to Paul. Paul’s parents are obsessed with Erik’s football career-so much so that they don’t seem to notice the sinister things about Erik that Paul notices. Erik will be the kicker for Lake Windsor High football team. Fisher will be the new director of civil engineering for Tangerine County. Fisher joins the Lake Windsor Housing Association and becomes the head of the architectural committee. Many of the groves, it turns out, are being slashed and burned to make way for new housing developments like the one that the Fisher family moves into: Lake Windsor Downs, a sterile, wealthy development where all the houses the look the same. When they arrive, Paul sees piles of tangerine trees smoldering in great heaps. Paul and his family are moving from Houston to Tangerine County, Florida-a region known for its tangerine groves. He writes about the strange vision in his journal this mysterious journal entry is how the diary-novel of Tangerine begins. As Paul packs up his house in Houston, he has a terrifying vision of Erik leaning out the window of a car, wearing a ski-mask, swinging a baseball bat at Paul’s head. Paul Fisher, an eighth grader with bad eyes, is afraid of his older brother, Erik.
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