Avoidance : a novel

M. Lowenthal

Jeremy Stull's, a staff member in a summer camp, life is challenged when he becomes infatuated with a young, troubled boy at the camp. He deeply wants to have an intimate relationship with the young man, and is jealous of the director who seems to also be interested in the boy. He has to put his feelings on hold when he learns that the camp director, a victim of sexual abuse himself, abuses the boy. Jeremy realizes just how close he came to actually committing the same crime.