Money Rides on Silence

Walking to the school bus stop early one spring morning, sixteen-year-old Binley Rosen stumbles upon a car occupied by Byram Hills hottie Joni Sanborn and her considerably older boyfriend. Binley keeps his lips buttoned about Joni’s backseat gymnastics and the two teens become fast friends. When summer vacation arrives, Binley follows star athlete Topher Wyss to a training camp for runners. Instead of winning his idol’s favor, however, Binley gets caught in a compromising position with another camper. Faced with certain humiliation, Binley is rescued by a mysterious woman in a vampire wig. Reunited with Joni, the two friends steal money and a car and take off for adventure. The road from New York to Vegas proves as bumpy as the road from adolescence to adulthood. Along the way, Binley and Joni avoid suspicious hotel clerks, cross paths with a crazy homeless girl, and learn the strange tale of a live, headless chicken. The story comes to a dramatic conclusion in a desert ghost town hundreds of miles short of Sin City. David Rubin’s first novel is a comic yet touching tale of sexual awakening and steadfast friendship, based upon his own 1970s upbringing in upstate New York.