Last Year's Boy, (Paperback)

<p>Eighteen-year-old Vincent drifts aimlessly through post-high school life when the opioid crisis hits. Friends vanish, overdosing. His older brother Jimmy-always the life of the party-has begun shooting heroin. With little more than hope and an acceptance letter to his dream school, Vincent runs to Los Angeles searching for an escape.</p><p>But distance proves illusory. In the sun-bleached sprawl of L.A., old ghosts resurface. Jimmy's spiral deepens. And when a childhood friend is murdered in their family home, Vincent is forced back to the place he swore he'd never return-to face what's broken, and what might still be saved.</p><p>Last Year's Boy is a spare, haunting meditation on memory, survival, and the ache of unrequited love. With raw, lyrical intensity, I. L. Smith-Garcia captures the dislocation of coming-of-age in the shadow of crisis-and the quiet, stubborn hope that healing might be possible, even if it comes too late.</p>

• Last Year's Boy, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798291711118
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-07-16
• Page Count: 220