Richard Rossi's Stick Man: Updated Edition Richard Rossi Author

The best coming-of age novel since 'Catcher In the Rye'...(Literary Review Journal)Stick Man is a coming-of-age story about a boy named Jeremiah Young who grows up in a bohemian household. He has a bi-polar jazz guitarist father and an artist mother who plays piano who keeps the family's dark secrets.My battle with Stick Man started one spring morning. First loves hung like photographs on the walls of my subconscious. I didn't think I'd make it to adulthood because Stick Man wanted to kill me.Jeremiah meets his first love, Angel, and her beauty makes the nightmare stop. After their golden summer of love, Angel vanishes and the nightmares of Stick Man return with a vengeance. Jeremiah searches for his lost love, taking him on a journey that brings him face-to-face with the sinister Stick Man. On his 21st birthday, Jeremiah discovers the truth about love, faith, and Stick Man.