ASIN: B013UA5WGS
Publisher: Rewild West Publishing
Pages: 413
When David Foster Sayers was eight years old, his mother Rita--a bipolar painter and alleged widow--whisked him away in the middle of the night from their home in the San Francisco Bay Area to California's North Coast, home of ancient old-growth redwood trees and one of the last remaining bastions of virgin forests in America. Rita's shocking actions there forever alter the course of Foster's life; her revelations forcibly instill in him a kind of environmental neurosis. Though he feels overwhelming guilt in contributing to deforestation, he is uncontrollably compelled--as if by some outside entity--to write. Foster believes it is his life's purpose. Amid this backdrop, Foster quits high school and runs away on a search for his father, who may or may not in fact be long dead. Accompanying Foster is his best friend Jimmy Grant--a wild, impulsive, fiercely loyal, and bisexual black kid ...
