The Holy Paragon

One's teenage years, a time filled with the angst of growing up, dating, and just fitting in, form the backdrop of this book, set in a suburban Virginia high school. Oakton High, and the author Bob Karnes' many misadventures there, are brought back into sharp focus. Written a quarter century after the events, "The Holy Paragon" serves as a memoir of a giddy and sometimes painful past, and a reminder that all of life's experiences eventually settle into middle age, real life, and (dreaded) responsibility. Surprisingly frank, madcap, and challenging. Filled with music, references to the 1970s, and subject photographs.