The Bow Tie Gang

When seventeen year-old Wil discovers his girlfriend Katherine is pregnant, he thinks his world is about to end. It s only a week before his graduation from high school, and he s still running around with a hot rod gang of small-town black Irish kids known as the Bow Ties. He sees his sudden collision with responsibility as a premature banishment into family life banality. When Wil discovers Kat s wealthy father facilitated an illegal abortion, he is relieved. Momentarily. It isn t long before guilt and confusion engulf him, threatening to sever the bond between his post-pubescent soul and his sanity. Set before the hot rod culture of Northern California in 1961, Wil, and the rest of the gang, are forced to cope with love, lust, death, betrayal, madness, and teenage sex already devoid of its innocence.