A Teenage Odyssey for Adults and Mature Teenage Readers:

Selected for the "Albuquerque Easy Reading Parade" (Peter Kelton, March 21, 2014):

C. J. Sosa tells an engaging story of youth, redemption, and sexual coming of age in New Mexico. In 1971, seventeen-year-old Shane Russell makes a well-planned escape from a Michigan winter and sets off on a 2,000-mile adventure in search of a town that exists only between the covers of Richard Bradford's famous New Mexico novel "Red Sky at Morning."

Driven to recreate the nude scenes and build the mini...