Under the Wolf Under the Dog

About this book

Alternately heartbreaking and starkly humorous this teenagers brutal story of escape and desire for redemption is masterfully told by award-winning writer and film director Adam Rapp. Im what they call a Gray Grouper. The Red Groupers are the junkies and the Blue Groupers are the suicide kids. Steve Nugent is in a facility called Burnstone Grove. Its a place for kids who are addicts like Shannon Lynch who can stick $1.87 in change up his nose or for kids who have tried to commit suicide like Silent Starla whom Steve is getting a crush on. But Steve doesnt really fit in either group. He used to go to a gifted school. So why is he being held at Burnstone Grove? Keeping a journal in which he recalls his confused and violent past Steve is left to figure out who he is by examining who he was.