He's on the receiving end of John D.'s plan to infect his brothers with the mumps, but though John D. "the Great Brain") charges his friends admission to watch a plumber dig a hole in the backyard for a new flush toilet, the Great Brain's exploits only get bigger and more daring: Starting off with a story about the time Tom (a.k.a. Narrated by eight-year-old John D., often called just J.D., the youngest Fitzgerald, The Great Brain is a series of connected episodes about Tom D.'s self-interested schemes. 
It's the year Utah becomes a state (not important to this story), the year the Fitzgerald family gets an indoor toilet, and the year Tom D., the middle Fitzgerald brother, realizes that using his Great Brain to help others makes him feel good even if he doesn't make a penny off it.įirst, though, he makes a lot of pennies. It's 1896 in Adenville, Utah, a town of two thousand Mormons and five hundred Protestants.
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