Rich Boy Cries For Momma

Set in Washington, D.C. during the turbulent 1980s, Rich Boy Cries for Momma is a coming of age novel told from the perspective of the good son turned teenage punk rocker. While the nice kids of the Washington elite bully and reject the teenager because of his dyslexia, the punk rock scene accepts him as he is. This fast-paced novel pulls us into the teenager s dangerous and erratic new world filled with violence and drugs, yet funny and touching. A disparate cast of characters from the rich, powerful and successful to the beaten, broken and besmirched become entangled in the punk rock subculture. We follow alongside the somewhere-in-between teenager as he wades through his learning disability and relationships that sometimes betray his perceptions, sometimes break his heart and sometimes save his life.
= a line break Rich Boy Cries for Momma features ink and paper drawings that capture the essence of D.C. during in the 1980s. The book also contains the lyrics of more than two dozen songs of the hard-core punk rock bands of that era.