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Evie and Leo met in foster care as children and formed a bond of friendship. As they grew, their bond turned to love, and they vowed to make a life together when they turned 18 and were no longer a part of the system.

It’s the fall of 1969, and Gloria Random’s best friend John has been called up for the draft. To escape it, they decide to run away from their Midwest town and their mundane lives. Renaming themselves Witch and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch’s biological father. Landing in the East Village, they are pulled into a community of drug use, mystical rituals, and sexual experimentation as they try to hide deeper and deeper from the realities they left behind. James Leo Herlihy’s third novel captures the mood and grooves of late-60s New York at the height of the anti-war movement and the counterculture revolution.

Most people in town think 16-year-old Clinton Williams’ family is strange. Wishing he could contact his wayward brother, Clinton yearns for a day when he, too, can escape the neighborhood and travel the country. After following a clue to Berry-berry’s whereabouts, Clinton ventures to Coastal Florida hoping to find him, but instead gets a firsthand view of his brother’s callous destructiveness that will leave permanent marks on the young man.

Pubertät ist schlimm. Klar. Aber nicht so schlimm wie: Alterspubertät! Alterspubertierende sind angegraute, bequeme, oft kurzsichtige Wesen, die die Ruhe lieben, das Wandern, das Wort "früher" und bestuhlte Pop-Konzerte. Männliche Alterspubertierende zwängen ihren runden Ü45-Körper in Neoprenanzüge und beginnen einen Kitesurf-Lehrgang. Andere laufen Marathon. Weibliche Alterspubertierende flüchten sich gern in die Spiritualität und "wollen sich neu entdecken". Oder Marmelade einkochen. Klingt scheußlich? Ist es auch.