Foreword
The age of adolescence has always been a difficult one, but particularly so for today's youths who are faced with great inner turmoil, uncertainty, and mounting pressures from peer groups and families. Certainly, the problems of youth in our society can be no more marked than they are today.
We bear and read constant reports of the pervasive use of drugs in our schools. Of shoplifting and other petty crimes. Of promiscuity and dangerous VD epidemics.
Jim, the teen in this story, is a teenager embarking on his own special journey into adolescence. He finds himself plagued by powerful emotions, sometimes feeling guilty about his awakening sexuality, sometimes getting angry over imagined slights and youthful misjudgments. It is only through the patient understanding of his widowed mother that Jim manages to put his world into perspective, coping with his new feelings and taking disappointments in stride.
MOM IN THE RAW-the stony of one average American young boy's coming of age. A reminder to us all that growing up is not easy.
-The Publisher