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A fiercely vivid assortment of stories about stressed California teenagers and misfits - violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and designer James Franco. Palo Alto is the debut of a astonishing and powerful new literary speech. Written with an immediate sense of place - claustrophobic and ominous - Wayne Franco's collection traces the lives of a protracted group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of most kinds, struggle with their own families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In "Lockheed" a woman's summer season - put in working a dreary internship - is abruptly upended by a spectacular incident of assault at a house get together. In "American History" a high-school freshman tries to impress a girl during a classroom skit with a realistic portrayal of a slave owner, only to have his feigned bigotry avenged. In "I POSSIBLY COULD Wipe out Someone" a lonesome teenager will buy a gun with the purpose of getting rid of his high-school tormentor, but starts to think about about his bully's own internal life. These linked experiences, stark, brilliant, and disturbing, are a compelling portrait of lives on the rough fringes of young ones.
