Someday this Pain Will be Useful to You

Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You
By: Peter Cameron
p.229
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-10: 0312428162
ISBN-13: 978-0312428167

Annotation :
Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.

Summary :

James has just graduated from high school and is unsure of his life's direction. He is working aimlessly at a job given to him by his Manhattan socialite mother at an art gallery. It is here where he meets the much older man John, who happens to be his mother's assistant. But when James is accused of sexual harassment by John, he has a feeling that his summer will be unlike any other.

Not your ordinary young adult novel, this book will sure to strike a humorous chord with its audience. This coming-of-age has its fill moments of humor, sadness and tender affection. For all of you who have ever wondered what life would be like if you had done something differently, than this is the novel for you.

Deftly written, this novel will appeal to both adults and young adults alike.