Spud Milton learns one of life's most important lessons as he continues his awkward stagger through adolescence: Nothing is ever quite as it seems when dealing with women and cretins. Spud writes confidently on his sixteenth birthday, "I'm practically a man in most areas." It's 1992, and radical change is in the air in South Africa. Spud Milton, a senior at boarding school, is hoping for a smooth ride as the country travels down a bumpy road toward an uncertain future. Instead, he discovers that his vengeful arch enemy has returned to taunt him, and that a boisterous Malawian has joined the regular inmates and misfits he refers to as friends in his dormitory. Spud's world has never seemed more uncertain; he struggles with Shakespeare, his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.
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Spud Milton learns one of life's most important lessons as he continues his awkward stagger through adolescence: Nothing is ever quite as it seems when dealing with women and cretins. Spud writes confidently on his sixteenth birthday, "I'm practically a man in most areas." It's 1992, and radical change is in the air in South Africa. Spud Milton, a senior at boarding school, is hoping for a smooth ride as the country travels down a bumpy road toward an uncertain future. Instead, he discovers that his vengeful arch enemy has returned to taunt him, and that a boisterous Malawian has joined the regular inmates and misfits he refers to as friends in his dormitory. Spud's world has never seemed more uncertain; he struggles with Shakespeare, his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.
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