The Stardust Lounge: Stories from a Boy's Adolescence

Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13 — running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell. Confronted with his growing recklessness and defiance, his mother, the poet Deborah Digges, decides to try to accept Stephen on his own terms—a course that stuns her family and leads to the breakup of her second marriage. Digges “shadows” him on ...