Some people spend their entire lives recovering from childhood.
Honeysuckle Road includes four stories about children and child-like characters struggling to overcome their everyday challenges:
- A young girl learns about the consequences of being accepted as "one of the crowd" and realizes that maybe she is not in such a hurry to let go of her childhood.
- A man with mental illness encounters an unassuming child who changes the way he perceives the world around him.
- Rather than deal with his sham of a marriage to an underage wife who doesn't love him, a young man turns to the television for counseling, closely following the words of Jerry Springer.
- A boy finally faces the demons of his youth, but his success is short-lived when he realizes that his closest friend has egged him on. Will their friendship survive the summer?
Published: February 21, 2014