Books with title A Long Way from Disney: Short Stories of Growing Up in the 1980s

Do you like short stories?This collection will blow you away.You’ll love this book because it will make you feel and remember and, laugh, and even cry. Divorced parents. A fractured family. Adam Berkman navigates his adolescence the best he can. Among Top 40 hits. Chicken McNuggets. First dances. First dates. Nintendo. Even into college and beyond. You’ll love how the relationship troubles of the son follow those of his parents and seeing if he can get through, get past it all to be happy. As he becomes a man. Get it now and start reading.

These stories introduce Adam Berkman, a young man growing up in a world far removed from the depictions of American families he sees on television and in the movies. Like Boston to Orlando, Adam finds that his life is indeed a long way from Disney. Tender, haunting and astutely observed, this novel-in-stories follows Adam Berkman as he comes of age in racially charged 1980s Boston while his parents marriage crumbles. As he grows up, he finds himself facing the same challenges in his own relationships.