Bad Haircut: Stories from the Seventies

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Leftovers: "Darkly tender, simply written tales about growing up in the Garden State in the 1970s." —The New York Times Book Review

The ten rich stories here span from 1969 to 1980 and are linked by a single protagonist: Buddy, an adolescent suburban New Jersey boy who is truly seeing his world for the first time and already finding it both mysterious and lacking. Whether he's discovering that his mother actually knows—and has a history with...