Author Description

When Rudy Hoffman discards of his wife and uproots his children from Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Chagrin Falls, his 16-year-old son Joe, blackmailed and bullied by his father, struggles with his guilt and fear to be true to himself without bringing harm to his younger sister and mother - the only two people he can care about. The story follows Joe as he navigates tortured family dynamics and painful self-discovery in a world that feels alien to him.