A Small Memory

In the summer of 1975, Mike Youngstown is eighteen, restless for independence, and certain the future was waiting. He and his best friend, Ted, take jobs as live-in counselors at a group home in their Ohio hometown-a stepping-stone before college, basketball, and adulthood begin in earnest. Then one violent night shatters everything.

When Ted is brutally attacked by a resident and left in a coma, Mike is forced to confront a question that will haunt him: Why wasn't he there? As Ted slowly aw...