SUMMARY
15 year old Kaden Norris's brother, Kenny, has just died in iraq. He receives his last letter from him persuading him to go to San Francisco to visit his cousin James, who is a very famous and well-known author. Kaden decides to go to San Francisco to honor his brother's last wishes. Kaden reaches the airport in San Francisco expecting to meet his cousin, instead he sits waiting for at least an hour before his cousin's girlfrend Caralie finally comes to pick him up. The first time he meets James, he is strung out on Cocaine and is surrounded by filth and drugs. He follows James around the city to various drug dealer's homes and parties all throughout San Fran. He encounters peple randomly having sex in the dirty bathroom of a drug dealers home as well as guns out in the open.
QUOTE
"I trail him into his bedroom, and there's a naked girl with her eyes closed under the sheets. I sit down on this yellow and brown couch next to the door and watch him walk around a pyramid of beer cans and a stack of porn magazines" (Myers 63)
REACTION
That is certainly and interesting wayto be greeted to a place that you have NEVER been to. I was kindof shocked at first that a 15 year old would be seeing these kinds of things. Kaden doesn't really seem too shocked about the activities happening around him. Kaden's attitude almost seems as if he has seen things like this everyday (even though he hasn't because he's from Iowa). This story is crazy and its only been the first 100 pages of the book!
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