<p>Traces of a Boy is creative nonfiction at its best. True and accurate down to the last detail it pulsates like a stylized novel. Above all else it's the out-loud narration diary of an injured child in search of untroubled peace. As a story that exposes the barbarity of opposite-sex incest bone-breaking violence and the depraved indifference of mainstream society it is by design a hair-raiser with an intensity reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange.</p>