When Jeremy McGinnis, a 15-year-old in the sleepy Gold Rush town of
Murphys, discovers a retired teacher spasming with an asthma attack
and out of medicine, it's a no-brainer to get him to the hospital.
But the local media suddenly turns Jeremy into a hero, his second
"fifteen minutes of fame." As he gets to know the teacher, Lester
Crump, a man who has invested his life savings in three breeding
Vietnamese miniature potbellied pigs and a trailer, he raises Andy
Warhol's comment into an intense and engaging study of personal
integrity.
Outside of town Eliza Hewlie, a 65-year-old widow brokering the
sale of an abandoned gold mine just upstream from Lester, has to
contend with the threat of the deal contaminating the town's
groundwater. As Jeremy and Lester design a project which becomes a
huge environmental scavenger hunt, involving dozens of high school
students and half their parents, the tale of a town galvanized into
action is told in alternating chapters by Jeremy and Eliza. In
parallel coming-of-age stories, both begin feeling frustrated and
trapped at the opening of the story but free and in control of
their lives at the end for the first time.
"There were many things about your book that got to me. I cared
about the characters; the life messages and the environmental
issues; and the open-ended ending (hitting the road as I did) "
- Pattie DeMatteo from online distributor Mendocino Stories
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