Title: Into the Great Wide Open
First published: 1996
Description: Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson.

Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality - and a capacity for caring - he has not known before.
Subjects: Fiction, Teenagers, Suburban life, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, romance, general, Virginia, fiction
Places: Virginia