In Suburban High the author has used Will Moon as his fish out of water hero.  Catapulted from his ghetto lifestyle to a middle class one we see how he copes with his new circumstances. In the prelude sic, there is a wonderful series of descriptions as he wakes up in the hospital wired up to monitoring machines, wounded but with no recollection of how he got there. He rips the wires out and races through the hospital...soon he's being followed by security as he darts between bewildered patients and visitors in his high speed search...we don't know who or what he's so desperate to find...and this keeps us glued to the prose. Finally we see him arrive at a hospital bed in which a lady lies...we learn she meant a lot to him, but not who she is or what she means to him...and then we're into the story.  The author has an assured voice and tone and i feel sure this will be a great novel when it's finished and I look forwards to reading more.

For someone who had some of their formative years (depending on opinion) in the 90s, I found the world of Suburban High to be both familiar and real. This is a testament to the writing to draw readers in regardless of demographic, but thankfully good writing always seems to mange to transcend such arbitrary lines in the sand.

A coming of age story of an African American teenager moving to the suburbs. He'd like nothing on than to move on from the past but visions and nightmares from once upon a time may prevent him from doing so.