Smoking marijuana and cutting up in school to avoid the pain associated with his dysfunctional family, Kenny finds his life transformed by his affair with Junie, a young girl who is battling her own demons Smoking marijuana and cutting up in school to avoid the pain associated with his dysfunctional family, Kenny finds his life transformed by his affair with Junie, a young girl who is battling her own demons. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour. Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality - and a capacity for caring - he has not known before.
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