Your best friend gets pregnant at 17, would you adopt the child? Probably not. What if your brother or long-time boyfriend or his best friend were the father? Still No……but Bonnie would.
Meet Bonnie, a sharp 17-year-old girl with plans and an unhealthy yearn to keep her sharper friends together one way or another.
Read as she navigates senior year, a long-term relationship, gender norms, a pennant race, suburban politics, religion, and managing the people around her, all under the watchful eye of an ominous group of mothers….one in particular.
Bonnie and her “coalition of the unwilling” will make you laugh, cry, question your bravery and how you define a friend….or a mother.
*As told, a generation or two later, by your favorite unemployed “sportscaster”–who calls all the balls and strikes on and off the field.*
A writer who cut his teeth on the kitchen table, a math tutor–for the working class; convincing kids math and science can be fun. Unconvinced and quick to call me a liar, I turned unorthodox topics into a story---honing my skills using the toughest of topics and harshest of critics- that helped pass the time and the information stick.
Stories so riveting parents couldn’t help but listen, hiding in nooks and crannies, happy with their choice in “nannies”. A tried-and-true method, translated on paper with a story as “fictional” as theoretical physics and blackholes; much more entertaining I promise. Someone who doesn’t look like a writer but…..hey…..who…...writes like one, concise with a style that’s engaging…..kinda like this blurb.
The writer that gives you credibility with the critics and, more importantly engages the casual reader--the people who actually move the needle in society. A writer with wit and grit that success can’t dull. Resourceful with flowery and nuanced language in his arsenal, along with the everyday speak that makes him and his reader one. A writer you get to know in his writing explicitly and implicitly. By design, something I can’t hide or want to.
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