“At the end of the day, I’ll spend five minutes, seven minutes, just scrubbing my hands, all the way up to my elbows.” Schmidt, 47, has been working at his father’s garage since he was 11.

Look at Your Hands. By Mark O’Connell. October 23, 2012. Save this story Save this ... The hand scene works as a miniature representation of Tavares’s fiction as a whole, ...