title: Remembering the Summer of the Pink Flamingoes
author: Sawyer, J. Scott
description: A fiction writer currently living in Hawaii, Scott Sawyer is awakened by a late night call from Pat Wilson, a friend in Tennessee, who is calling to inform Scott that their mutual friend, Jason Maler, has died in a car accident. In Jason’s pocket was a note with Scott’s name on it.
  Scott returns to Tennessee to attend Jason’s funeral and discovers a side of his deceased friend that he never knew. Through this discovery, and by reconnecting with friends from his past, he recounts one of the most significant events of his and Jason’s lives, and is able to come to terms with Jason’s life and death while also re-evaluating his own life choices.