The title story of this collection, Selling Their Childhood, is a visceral tale related by a cynical teenager who, at the age of sixteen, is already past his prime as a young prostitute working the bus stop steps in Omaha. His best friend is a dreamer but the hero knows their fate is written in the hard eyes of the fathers who pay for their services before returning home to family life in the suburbs. We see these predatory hypocrites very clearly although they don’t feature in the story as anyt More...