Charlie's Story

It’s an understatement to say that 1974 has ended badly for 19-year-old Charlie Seldon. 

He’s been sent up to Sockanossett on his third strike and it’s guaranteed he’ll remain here until his 21st birthday. The girl he was partying with—his best friend Angie—is dead of a heroin overdose and there’s no denying it was his fault even if he wasn’t the one who gave her the drugs. His dad appears to have washed his hands of his screw-up of a son. And Sockanossett’s superintendent, Bagliarini, has made it clear that Charlie’s final stint in juvie will be more than miserable. Which maybe Charlie deserves.

Then his buddy David brings him a fateful letter from Val Pinney, the stacked girl from high school chorus who’s hung up on Charlie. Sure, he’s gotten down with her a few times because she was there and willing, but fatherhood was never part of Charlie’s very limited plans. Now he’s almost glad to be locked up.

But when he learns that Val and the child she’s carrying are in even worse trouble than he is, Charlie’s surprised to find he’s suddenly more worried about them than himself.

Charlie’s Story recounts a young man’s journey as he works through past and present grief to come to terms with his feelings, to see himself through the eyes of those who believe in him, and to transform the juvenile delinquent he’s been into a man of character.