For Brad Edwards, adolescence is not about proms and Homecomings and sweet, clumsy first romances.
It’s about coming of age on a Southern military base in the turbulent 1960s,
as the country plunges into the Vietnam War and endures the agonizing birth of the Civil Rights movement.
It is a time of fear, confusion and self-doubt, at once absurd, darkly funny and desperately real,
as Brad learns that youth is anything but innocent, and that sometimes you make choices, but sometimes they make you.
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