The Nine A Novel

Fourteen-year-old Sam is glad to be out from under his mother's close watch, and he enjoys his newfound freedom at boarding school--until he stumbles upon evidence of sexual misconduct. Both a coming-of-age novel and a portrait of an evolving mother-son relationship, this is the story of a young man who chooses to expose a corrupt world--even if it means jeopardizing his mother's dreams.r's dreams.