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Seventeen-year-old Clay Gardner is the youngest medical technician in the hospital. Having just graduated high school, he struggles to find a future while his college-bound classmates party their summer away. Hoping to one day become a doctor, Clay envies his best friend, Joey, who will head to Duke in the fall.
After a long day at the hospital, Clay bikes to “the shed” and finds Joey naked and acting crazy. Clay calls 911, and when Joey attacks him in a violent frenzy, Clay knocks him to the ground, causing a serious brain injury. While the police, Joey’s friends and parents place the blame on Clay, he desperately searches for the truth. How did straight-laced Joey end up on PCP? But nobody is talking, and Clay’s emotions spiral out of control as memories of his blood brother bring his own feelings of guilt to the surface.
In Blood Brothers, the debut novel by author S. A. Harazin, the issue of drug abuse is brought to life in a convincing and non-didactic way. By no means preachy, Harazin pens likeable, realistic characters forced to face the consequences of their actions and deal with the hardships life throws at them. As the story comes full circle and the truth breaks free, this brilliant author manages to twist the heartbreak ending into a glimmer of hope. Bravo!
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Blood Brothers