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From Memorial Day before student personnel and holidaymakers leave in the land, the island community of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thrives on alcoholic beverages, drugs, sexual experimentation, and every other method of forgetting tasks. To Brad Shepherd - lately forced out of his job as a junior high mathematics teacher following the overdose fatality of a student - it's exactly the kind of place he's looking for. Allured by the comfort and popularity of the hedonistic atmosphere, Brad deals his academic tasks and sense of responsibility for a bouncer's torch and a quest for the endless warmer summer months. With Cinch Stevens, his new best friend and local medication supplier, at his area, Brad becomes lost in a haze of extra and instant gratification filled with passionate conquests, late-night excursions to special island hideaways, and an evergrowing drug habit. Not the wish from a blossoming romantic relationship with Astrid, a striking and radiant Norwegian waitress, nor the mentoring from a strange mandolin player called Caldwell is enough to draw him out of his downward spiral. But as Labor Day approaches, the grim certainty of his clear quest uses him. With nowhere kept to run or conceal, Brad must admit that identity can't be found or fabricated, but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go. A look at one man's belated coming of age that's equally funny, earnest, passionate, and lamenting, Doug Cooper's debut book explores the modern search for responsibility and identity, demonstrating through the eye of Brad Shepherd how sometimes, we can only just come to understand who we truly are by becoming the person we're not.
