Coconut crabs roast atop a sheet of roofing iron, heated by a fire below, as the Manele family prepares for a typical Monday night dinner in Guadalcanal, an island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Standing next to the fire which has been set at the foot of the stairs leading up to the house, John Manele, a subsistence farmer, chats with his sons – 13-year-old Junior Dominic and 17-year-old Jeffry – as the sun goes down.
A few yards away, Loretta Manele, the boys’ mother, fixes the rest of the meal next to the family’s traditional thatched-hut kitchen.
The cooking fire snaps. It cracks again. Then it explodes.
The blast hurls the four Maneles off the ground, sending them flying. The blazing airborne metal mangles John and Junior. John dies where he lies, Junior in a hospital, two hours later. When Jeffry comes to, he finds himself beside his mother, her legs scorched and pocked with shrapnel.
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