Inspired by a tragic true event in his past, Allan Wolf examines the
circumstances of one boy's inexplicable murder and the fateful summer
leading up to it.
Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those
funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes your
hand when he meets you, but he's also the kind of guy who's always up
for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes Chris
Goodman, which makes it especially shocking when he's murdered. Here, in
a stunning multi-voiced narrative--including the perspective of the
fifteen-year-old killer--and based on a true and terrible crime that
occurred when he was in high school, author Allan Wolf sets out to
answer the first question that comes to mind in moments of unthinkable
tragedy: how could a thing like this happen?