Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until hes blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer thinking about jump shots. Instead he is obsessed with Janines spiky hair, her milky white shoulders, and the mysterious little tattoo at the base of her neck, not to mention the heat of her breath, her dark eyes, wide hips and . . .Sometimes Stans imagination runs so wild he wonders whether he might be going crazy. That would be par for the course given his home life. His mother is dating the feckless Gary, and his little sister designated gifted, but a holy terror is acting out. Then Stans father arrives on the scene with Stans four-year-old half brother, and things become truly insane.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 8th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 14 years.

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Groundwood Books Ltd , Canada .

Alan Cumyn is the author of twelve wide-ranging and often wildly different novels. A two-time winner of the Ottawa Book Award, he has also had work shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, and the Trillium Award. He teaches through the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a past Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada. He live in Ontario, Canada.