What do you do if your twin brother goes missing without an explanation? Do you hunt him down, or wait for an answer? These are the questions posed in the title story, 'Hullabaloo.' Other stories tackle themes of love lost and found, pose questions of identity and ethnicity, and study the human condition in times of stress. In 'The Brothers' Pride, ' for example, the question posed is: 'How does one react to a letter from an ancestor hidden in an old book?' In yet another story, 'Carrot Boy, ' we are asked to sympathize with a boy with a bad temper. How does he react when he is teased publically by his classmate ?...The eleven stories by Simon Protheroe span four continents, united by the way they all pay attention to the importance of location on character, and the period of history they are set in on the storylin