Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death Emily and Navin's mother is

Emily and Navin's mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod's poison

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They faced down doctors who put them on bed rest and newspaper reports that said women collapsed if they ran a mere eight hundred meters

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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death Emily and Navin's mother isBilly Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.