The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's lengthy road to adulthood is still progressing at an unnervingly sluggish pace, despite his best efforts. Spud is approaching the ripe old age of fifteen and has yet to witness the much-anticipated ball-drop. He is coming to terms with the possibility that he is a freak of nature, and he is not alone. With a mother who is hell-bent on emigrating, a father who makes a living selling homemade moonshine, and an insane grandmother known as Wombat, the new year seemed to hold nothing but tremendous shame and more mortifying Milton craziness. Spud, on the other hand, is returning to boarding school, where he is no longer the youngest or the smallest in the group.. One of his dormmates, known as the Crazy Eight, has acquired an interesting new member, and his house has acquired a new group of first-year students (the Normal Seven). If Spud is under the impression that his second year would be a breeze, he is gravely misinformed.
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The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's lengthy road to adulthood is still progressing at an unnervingly sluggish pace, despite his best efforts. Spud is approaching the ripe old age of fifteen and has yet to witness the much-anticipated ball-drop. He is coming to terms with the possibility that he is a freak of nature, and he is not alone. With a mother who is hell-bent on emigrating, a father who makes a living selling homemade moonshine, and an insane grandmother known as Wombat, the new year seemed to hold nothing but tremendous shame and more mortifying Milton craziness. Spud, on the other hand, is returning to boarding school, where he is no longer the youngest or the smallest in the group.. One of his dormmates, known as the Crazy Eight, has acquired an interesting new member, and his house has acquired a new group of first-year students (the Normal Seven). If Spud is under the impression that his second year would be a breeze, he is gravely misinformed.
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