New Young Adult Novel For Review: Latitudes-A Story of Coming Home by Anthony Caplan

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Anthony Caplan will be touring September 3 – 28 2012 with his young adult novel, Latitudes – A Story of Coming Home(Hope Mountain Press).

LATITUDES – A story of one boy overcoming dysfuntion, dislocation and distance…

When Father and Mother, a highflying young American lawyer and his party-hard bride, fall prey to the self-destructive lure of alcohol and sexual liberation, Will and his sisters pay the price in divorce and kidnappings that take them back and forth between the rain forest hideaways of coastal Latin America and the placid suburbs of Long Island. Will identifies with the oppressed workers laboring in his father’s fast food restaurant and longs for American freedom. Father remarries the daughter of a local aristocrat, and Will is sent off to the hothouse world of a New England boarding school.

Swimming in a sea of Fair Isle sweaters and LL Bean boots, Will discovers a core of resilience in himself that allows him to survive, thrive, and ultimately embrace the flawed and varied worlds he inhabits. Will reconnects with his Mother, sinking into a New York City world of Irish bars and one night stands he cannot save her from. With a little help from friends, and a high school Shakespeare class taught by the school’s closeted gay athletic trainer, Will begins to see the possibility of finding his true path. Latitudes charts the birth pangs of a quest for self and soul — from a tropical childhood to a coming of age on the road.

226 pages

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If you would like to review Latitudes – A Story of Coming Home, please contact Deborah Previte at thebookishdame(at)aol.com. Please mention which date would work for you. Anthony is also available for interviews and guest posts.
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