John Wesley Hardin is the smartest kid in Caledonia, but his high
I.Q. can't always keep his dream world separate from the real
world. Named after an outlaw by a mother with the attention span of
a hummingbird, John is different from other children. He memorizes
the Periodic Table of the Elements in four days just because he
can. People call him a genius, and he believes them, because he
can't think of any evidence to the contrary. John's chronic
overconfidence upsets the balance between risk and reward in his
decision-making. Believing that he can rescue his father's hardware
store from failure, he makes huge bets that threaten to ruin him
and his family financially. Each brush with disaster emboldens him
to take on even greater risks. His vestiges of infantile
omnipotence fall just short of pathological grandiosity. His
obsessive nature and good intentions muddle the distinction between
right and wrong; he rationalizes committing one fraud after
another. When his fundamental identity is exposed as a fiction, his
confidence is shattered. He must choose between pride and humility,
between self-reliance and dependence on others. His reward for
making the right choice is the chance to redeem himself as a young
man capable of loving and worthy of being loved.
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