The Fall of Summer

President John Kennedy is dead. Vietnam looms on the horizon. But days are long and time is cheap in Hardscrabble a sleepy Long Island town reluctant to awaken. DJ Elders a high school senior finds himself stumbling through the no-mans-land between adolescence and adulthood. Suddenly a striking beauty with a hot body and mysterious background shows up. DJ notices. She smiles. He falls. And tragedy leads to homicide as the once-tranquil town of Hardscrabble blows up around him. In a heartbreaking and humorous testament to the enduring power of friendship and youth The Fall of Summer is a bittersweet glance back to a simpler time when the Beatles had just hit American shores the Yankees couldnt lose a pennant and lifes promise was still within reach.