This was Michael Chabon’s first published novel but I had oddly never read this before.  Chabon wrote this when he was about the same age as the protagonist and his group of summer friends.  His youth shows but it is an asset in that it informs the characters in a very different way than if he’d written as a more mature person trying to create a younger feel.  I actually backdoored into this particular book having first seen the movie version a couple years ago. […]