![]() ![]() One of Alex's passions is jazz guitar, and since Sol, coincidentally, was a famous jazz guitarist himself back in the day, much of the emotional detail of the dénouement comes coded in musician lingo that will appeal to readers with a feel for jazz improvisation. While the plot doesn't do anything new or surprising, it treads its predictable path with a delicate step and a light-hearted humor and charm. In the course of doing his time, he learns the requisite important lesson about life, turns his best friendship into a best friendship with benefits, and ends up bringing an old man back together with his long-lost daughter, all while becoming a much nicer guy. After meeting Sol, Alex fires off a letter to the judge protesting his punishment, but it isn't long before he finds the heart of gold in the mouthy curmudgeon. Instead, he ends up getting arrested for driving underage and under the influence, and he is sentenced to spend 100 hours with a notoriously crotchety old man in a nursing home. Alex thinks the best way to work out his anger about his mother's first post-nasty-separation date is to get drunk and storm his father's new house in hopes of confronting him over his girlfriend. ![]()
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