About the book: 2017 / Boys, how difficult and difficult it is for you to grow into adult men. You plunge headlong into intractable circumstances, confront dirty reality with reckless courage, and your reckless actions border on madness. But that’s what you’re boys for. Fourteen-year-old Stuart Sanders, living in his own illusory world and occasionally getting out of it to encounter yet another cruelty and injustice, inexorable time presented a terrible test. Through ruthless trial and terrible error, he must discover the truth about what really happened to his brother, eight-year-old Brian, who disappeared one rainy morning right from the threshold of his elementary school..