Soehnlein, K. M., — The World of Normal Boys.

NY, Kensington, (2001). 1st PB ed. VG lg sz PB. The time is the late 1970s, an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday Night Fever, suburban New Jersey. At a. time when teenagers around him are coming of age, Robin is coming undone. Around him boys are into cars, sports, and bullying their classmates. Robin enjoys trips to NYC with his elegant mother, spinning fantastic tales for her amusement inan intimate ritual he has come to love. He dutifully plays the good son for his mean-and-potatoes father, even as his own mind is a jumble of sexual confusion and painful self-doubt. But then an accident wakes his family from their middle-American dream and plunges them into a spiral of slow destruction. Remainder mark.