English language
Published Jan. 21, 2009 by Viking.
4 stars
(1 review)
In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.
Subjects
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Alcoholism -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- High schools -- Fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Ohio -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction