Pacific

“A truly great writer” returns to the Midwest characters and setting of his landmark debut novel, The End of Vandalism ( Esquire ).   When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled equestrienne named Charlotte, and gets thrown out of school over the activities of a club cal