2m 2fNovember 1978. Wade Minnick 16 is a slender effeminate bookworm in suburban Miami. With his distracted mother out playing Bridge and his pilot father away on a trip Wade settles down in the family's showpiece living room to read A Passage To India. His volatile brother Chip 17 takes off on a dubious errand leaving Wade alone with Chip's foxy pothead girlfriend. "Freak" Tammy teaches "brain" Wade more about life and about himself than he could learn from a dozen novels. And wh