It's Okay to Lie If Your Fingers Are Crossed

IT'S OKAY TO LIE IF YOUR FINGERS ARE CROSSEDThere is some graphic sexuality addressed and expressed in this book and the language, one could describe, as colorful. In the light of that, it would not be proper or accurate to classify the contents as "juvenile fiction". Rather, it is an adult story for adults who still have some "kid" left in them and a "Kid" story, only under the cautionary umbrella of PG-13.TIME: August, 1950. PLACE: A suburb north of Fenway ParkYoung Billy Flynn is determined to find truth and direction, in spite of a family that opposes him at every turn and a neighborhood populated by a host of zany, insensitive, un-politically correct characters who aspire to little and value even less. It is light, it is heavy, it is American, it is Irish/American, it is sad, it is funny. And if it weren't for the irrepressible spirit and persistence of its hero, Billy Flynn, it could have been tragic. In Billy Flynn's world, his "little white cane" is his obsession, centerfield is thecenter of the known universe, and the Lone Ranger is his Spiritual Guide and Mentor in a confusing pre-sixties world.Negotiating survival with his unwitting family, Billy maneuvers like a caveman stalking an unpredictable woolly mammoth. He stalks, humors, baits and evades his rough-hewn father, Mike Flynn, his manipulative mother, Dot Flynn, and his unsympathetic fourteen-year-old sister Janey. When family plans threaten his destined rendezvous with a special Lone Ranger Anniversary Radio Show, (in which the Lone Ranger himself is to appear, unmasked), Billy resorts to secretive, unusual, even bizarre tactics. He will allow nothing to stand between him and that show.