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 Noā¦ā¦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 mothersā¦.one in particular.
Bonnie and her ācoalition of the unwillingā will make you laugh, cry, question your bravery and how you define a friendā¦..or a mother.
*As told, a generation or two later, by your favorite unemployed āsportscasterāāwho calls all the balls and strikes on and off the field.*
A writer who cut his teeth on the kitchen table, a math tutorāfor 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 couldnāt help but listen, hiding in nooks and crannies, happy with their choice in ānanniesā. A tried-and-true method, translated on paper with a story as āfictionalā 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 thatās 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.....and your pockets. A writer with wit and grit that success canāt 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 canāt hide or want to.
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