"The Lost Journal of Miles Bennelli" by Michael Salfino is a 95,000-word harrowing, humorous novel written in the voice of a character both perceptive and pugnacious. It's a no-holds-barred, coming-of-rage story.

What's Miles so pissed off about? His father split in the dead of the night rather than part with some court-ordered grocery money. His mother spends most nights working and the others boozing, saving her days for trite summaries from her post-GED Intro to Psych class. His wrong-side-of-the-tracks, welfare existence has turned him into a social pariah in cliquey, class-conscious and cut-throat suburbia. The booze, food and porn has left him broken, fat and bored. The only boys who'll hang around with him are dead-enders. And the easy money courtesy of a mob apprenticeship with a 400-pound loan shark leaves him unfulfilled. The alluring Madison provides the one sliver of silver lining in his dark cloud of a life, but she's been traumatized into a world of wizards and Hobbits and waiting for the Second Coming.

With such a maddening history and zero responsible adult supervision, can Miles make himself not just a man, but a man worth loving?

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