The Doodle Letters

Lester Doodle, an archetypal innocent American teenager, escapes from a mental institution in upstate New York and flees to Manhattan where he hopes to find personal freedom and liberation from his intense feelings of insecurity and loneliness. The narrative of his comic, perilous, and often deeply affecting adventures—told through a series of letters between Lester and his doting and eccentric mother, Gertrude Doodle, who lives in the fictional upstate town of East Canolysville, New York—i...