2026 True Coming of Age
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.
When I was twelve years old, on the cusp of puberty and all its delights, I lost my six year old little brother and perhaps even my own mind; however, with Sean’s continued silent, but now invisible presence, I found enduring sibling love.
Born at the dawn of the Second World War, a German girl comes of age between two opressive regimes, her quest for freedom carrying her from behind the Iron Curtain to the shores of California.
Motivated by her uncle’s work to end poverty, Hannah travels to Sauri, Kenya. Its harsh realities and his unexpected death force Hannah to face her biases about poverty. Embracing the community and her new Kenyan friend, feisty and lovable Wilkister, Hannah learns to find inspiration in progress.
A clinical psychologist who spent his life decoding the hidden rules of being human discovers he is autistic. His new understanding forces him to confront the cost of masking and to ask whether belonging is possible without performing.
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.
