A boys life in an old and affluent city suburb. Private school and the local county club, pee wee hockey at the rink. Foxtrot lessons in a blazer and tie. A big stone house with a rope swing hanging from the apple tree and a black Labrador curledMoreA boys life in an old and affluent city suburb. Private school and the local county club, pee wee hockey at the rink. Foxtrot lessons in a blazer and tie. A big stone house with a rope swing hanging from the apple tree and a black Labrador curled beside the boxwoods at the front door.But beneath this veneer of civility, something is stirring.
Chris, now in middle school, has half the kids in his neighborhood--the children of lawyers and surgeons and investment fund managers--wearing trucker hats and flannel, listening to the Outlaws, spitting tobacco on the flagstone sidewalks of Chestnut Hill.Over time, however, the boyish antics of a whimsical and charismatic child become troublesome episodes of a difficult teenager and, later, an unsettled young adult. Episodes that bring a growing and hardening tension between Chris, the eldest son, and his father.That is, until things change.