The Madcat: An Amusement Park Novel

In 1975, Vinny Potkevich, an anxious but wide-eyed 17-year-old, runs away from an abusive stepdad outside Pittsburgh to find exhilarating refuge in a giant amusement park hundreds of miles east. Alongside P.K. Hopper, a notorious, death-defying rogue who runs the Madcat coaster, Vinny "saves" eight lives a minute wielding tall rusty poles, meets girls at the drop of a safety bar, dodges insane orders from Britt Fisher, the vengeful personnel director, parties after hours in whirlwinds of be...