The boy in the lake

E. Swanson

Haunted by the memory of his willing participation in a violent boyhood ambush, Christan Fowler, a middle-aged therapist, returns to the rural Midwestern town of his youth. While revisiting his childhood haunts and searching for the friend he betrayed in order to conceil his homosexuality, Christian recounts his recent professional failure to help an anguished teenager come to terms with his own sexual orientation.