Nothing about Nathan Frank's early childhood hints at the devastating future that lay ahead for him. The popular second born son of a middle class family in Southern California, Nathan is a generous, intelligent, inventive and charismatic kid whose bold love for life seems to promise an extraordinary future. With the advent of adolescence, however, Nathan's world begins to unravel. Trips into normal adolescent defiance and confusion from which most of us return relatively unscathed do not stop for Nathan at the expected terminals. Instead, his ride relentlessly gathers speed until his...