![]() Questions that cause Matt to stand up to his dad, and to undertake a quest, of sorts, to find out the answers. And questions about T.J., especially after Matt gets a look at some of the stuff inside T.J.'s foot lockers. ![]() Questions about himself and his future, about dealing with his father, about dealing with Shauna. ![]() Speaking of questions, Matt has a lot of them. He was killed in Iraq, his injuries so bad that a viewing was out of the question. What you don't learn in the first couple of chapters, though it's given away on the flap copy, is that T.J. ![]() A hard-hitting bully with an alcohol problem. And he's left alone to deal with his father, who has turned out to be a bully. He can't help but compare himself to his older brother T.J., who enlisted in the Army. He's struggling with feelings for his friend Shauna, whom he'd like to be something more. ![]() (And boy, does he have a lot of anger to go around.) There are kids at school constantly baiting him with their anti-military talk. It's clear from the first chapter that he's got a problem dealing with anger. And, like many kids who are trying to figure out how to grow up and what, exactly, that means, he's got issues. Matt Foster is a 17-year old junior in high school. ![]()
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