2026 True Coming of Age

In the post-COVID era, a nineteen-year-old law student clings to denial and substances to ignore her crashing academic performance, and the notion that this bizarre party across the street might have noticed her.

Born at the dawn of the Second World War, a German girl comes of age under Nazism and communism, her quest for freedom carrying her from behind the Iron Curtain to the shores of California.

After his family falls apart, a teenage boy from Philadelphia drifts into crime, drugs, and violence, surviving on bad decisions, dumb luck, and the fact that somehow nothing kills him.