{"product_id":"regular-boy-isbn-9781644285923","title":"Regular Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet against the raw, unvarnished backdrop of early-1990s New York and the shadowy institutional hinterlands of New England, \u003ci\u003eRegular Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a blistering coming-of-age novel about rebellion, identity, and the thin line between freedom and control.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaphael is fifteen, sharp, reckless, and too self-aware for his own good—caught between privilege and alienation, punk romanticism and parental expectation. After a summer of raves, drugs, sex, and near-miss catastrophe, he is abruptly extracted from his city life and deposited into a so-called therapeutic boarding school that operates less like a refuge than a psychological pressure cooker. What follows is a harrowing descent into a closed system built on coercion, confession, and conformity, where “self-work” becomes surveillance and belonging is enforced through ritual humiliation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Blending fever-dream intensity with cultural precision, Michele Civetta captures the volatile inner life of adolescence with uncommon force—its bravado, its cruelty, its longing, and its desperate need for meaning. \u003ci\u003eRegular Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a portrait of youth culture on the brink of sanitization, an indictment of institutionalized control masquerading as care, and a deeply personal story about a young man struggling to hold onto his sense of self when everything around him demands submission.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Unflinching, lyrical, and emotionally ferocious, \u003ci\u003eRegular Boy\u003c\/i\u003e announces a powerful new voice and stands as a cautionary tale about what happens when society decides that being “normal” is the highest virtue of all","brand":"Rare Bird Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48683663196389,"sku":"NP9781644285923","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/regular-boy-isbn-9781644285923","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}