Title: The beginning of calamities
Description: Set in a blue-collar Long Island suburb in the 1970's, this is a story of the awkwardness and agony of childhood. An eleven-year-old Catholic school student writes a Passion play, ends up in the role of Christ, and develops his own Messiah complex.
Subjects: Amateur theater, Boys, Catholic schools, Fiction, Gay youth, School children
Places: Long Island (N.Y.)