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Seventeen-year-old Woody and his friends encounter dead ends in Mendocino, a town on the Northern California coast. So does basketball coach Ray Ellis, an ex-All American with a dark past. Everything changes when sophisticated city kid Chase McMillan shows up, inspiring in them all the confidence and self-respect they need to face the future. But as Chase introduces a new competitive spirit both on and off the court, those dead ends close in on his new friends, and Ray's dark past catches up with him, Woody tragically discovers at what cost success can come.
Originally published in 2017 by Touchpoint Press, this engaging coming-of-age story is now revised and reprinted by Atopon Books.
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About the author
STEFAN MATTESSICH is the author of three novels: Point Guard, a coming-of-age story set on the Northern California coast of Mendocino; East Brother, a satire about gentrification in a fictional California beach town; and The Riverbed, about intelligent young people coming to understand the darker sides of the suburbia they call home. He went to Yale College and has a PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he wrote a monograph on the fiction of Thomas Pynchon entitled Lines of Flight, published by Duke University Press. He has also written a wide variety of literary criticism and cultural theory. He teaches English at Santa Monica College and lives in Los Angeles.
