Product Description
by Frank Murtaugh (Author)
Love a little, die a little, and break the law. Trey Milligan did them all in one summer, and before his 14th birthday.Trey lives in Southern California with his parents and younger sister, but is spending the summer after 7th grade with his widowed grandmother in a small Tennessee town. The South becomes home to Trey, but also represents the freedom every child associates with the summer months.Three of Trey's friends - Wendy, Devon, and Larry - come to personify love, death, and the criminal element, challenges every child must, at some point, confront. Together, the trio builds an unasked-for bridge to adulthood for Trey. The warmth and comforts of a "summer at Grandma's" becomes a life-changing season of internal growth.None of the transformative events of this fateful summer, though, prepare Trey for the horror almost literally next door . . . the monster in hiding, and far too close to the girl he comes to love.A coming of age tale set in the summer of 1982, the story reflects the transition of a young man forced - over three months - to grow up in ways that typically require several years. Trey's grandmother, sister, and an older second-cousin help shape him through the most memorable summer of his life. But it's three friends - Trey's company - who forever change his life.
Author Biography
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Frank Murtaugh grew up in a variety of places - Atlanta, Italy, Southern California - before his family settled in Northfield, Vermont. Spending his winters on a basketball court, Frank never learned to ski, and didn't fully appreciate maple syrup until marrying his wife, Sharon, whose family runs a small sugaring business. Today Murtaugh lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years. A graduate of Tufts University and a longtime managing editor at Memphis magazine, Frank and his wife, Sharon, are the proud parents of two daughters, Sofia and Elena.
