The star studded life of the mayor’s teenage son is thrown into mayhem when he saves a suspected child molester from drowning.
There is no reason why the path of Jack Turner, quarterback of the football team and son of the mayor, should ever cross the path of Chuck Fredrickson, the old vagrant who forages the parks for wild asparagus and is suspected of multiple child molestations. Yet when he saves Chuck from drowning in a flash flood, they form an unlikely friendship. As Jack’s worldview on what it means to be truly human changes, he finds that stepping away from the world in which he once lived is not only difficult, but one that will almost definitely lead to his social execution.
The shadow of social media’s blame and shame culture looms over this Midwestern coming of age drama, where everyone finds him or herself on both sides of the social daggers. A mayor who seeks re-election, a son who tries to balance parental expectations with his own desires, a pastor’s daughter whose scandals hide beneath her curtain of piety, a social outcast who lives free from normal expectations, a suspected criminal who had woken up one day to find the world had left him behind - all spiral together in a whirlwind of discord that bring the once civil town to its own reckoning.
Some readers have compared it to a modern, inverted version of the Scarlet Letter.
Coming Fall 2016
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