Passing Through the Gate

This remarkable debut novel is a coming-of-age story about the bond forged between two boys at a midwestern boarding school. In the spirit of masterworks like FATHER SKY and A SEPARATE PEACE, and films such as “Dead Poets Society,” this is a page-turning tale about the evolution of the story’s two main characters and their friendship as they embark upon a series of pranks that ultimately places them in the midst of a decades-old campus mystery. The discovery tests the boys’ friendship and unknowingly puts them in danger when a brutal attack, weeks before graduation, leads to shocking revelations.