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Deaf, mute, and 14, Rad is a "sk8boarder" with little going for him: his drunken father killed his mom, one brother is in "Chino", and his sisters are lost to a born-again church. But his world changes dramatically when he meets Johnnyboy, an older homosexual who saves Rad's life in more ways than one. Together they flee to San Francisco, where they meet up with a pair of speed freaks, a Swedish nurse, and a skinhead. But Johnnyboy soon drops out of sight, and Rad is forced into a series of eye- and heart-opening experiences that debut novelist Kief Hillsbery portrays with poetic verve, literary adrenaline, and utterly engrossing language.
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