In the September 17 issue of the New Yorker, Paul Theroux created a monster in “Mr. Bones.” As most of the New Yorker fiction stories are, this was just a WEIRD story.

"Mr. Bones" is the name of a father who demands his family and children to call him by. He progresses from being a family based father to being a distant man who has no interst in his children, and only concentrates on being a masked image of a father.

It was strange to see the conversion at the end of thsi story from this distant man to be coming back into the family.

I enjoyed this story only because of his strange plot. I loved the masked image of a man who needed to go through a transformation in order to come back to his family and stop cracking these strange jokes.