It is a coming-of-age story about a young boy who experiences, and eventually triumphs over, the damage inflicted by a child molester.

Fee and other boys are molested by the choir director Big Eric Gorendt.

Fee is afraid to tell, and doesn't want anyone else to tell, for reasons that are deeper than pure embarrassment or fear.

This novel explores the horrific mental and emotional damage these boys go through and how they cope with this trauma.

[1] The Washington Post wrote, "A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death...A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.