Born in 1916, Sonia Kaspbrak is the overweight, domineering mother of Eddie Kaspbrak. Her husband, Eddie's father, died of cancer in 1951, and since then Sonia has kept Eddie on a short physical and psychological leash, almost to the point of deliberately weakening him to maximize her level of control. She is a regular customer in Norbert Keene's pharmacy, who provides Eddie's asthma medicine, until Keene attempts to explain to Eddie that his medicine is a placebo and that his sickness has psychological roots and is nurtured by his mother. Sonia proves to be a divisive force with respect to the Losers' club, an obstacle that is only overcome when Eddie, in a hospital bed with a newly broken arm, finally "stands up" to her and declares that his friends are a good influence on him, not a bad