What was it really like to be a teenager in a big city in the 1970s?
Leaving school at age 15, factory work, beer, and fast cars fill his days. The secure, carefree times of his childhood fade as the years pass with no direction or set course. Doing what he wants, when he wants with no repercussions, it becomes clear as he begins to enter adulthood, this life of a 70s teenager is not what he wanted or expected. Only a boy in a world he thought was his own to make, finding in the end just how wrong he could be.
In this powerfully honest, sometimes hilarious memoir, learn the intimate details of what one teenager thought, what he did, and how he made it out of that decade of incredible change to become a well-adjusted adult.
With no cell phones, no internet, no computers, and almost no adult supervision, the author takes you on a wild ride through the 1970s you'll never forget. Read along and witness as life unfolds for a teenager trying to navigate the 70s with the only tools he has - his wits and unbelievably good luck.