Luke McHenry loves baseball.After repeated disappointments, he is determined to make the All Star team.Then his mother makes an explosive confession: 31 years ago she was involved in an anti?Vietnam War protest that went horribly wrong, and a student was killed.Mom has been in hiding ever since, but now she is ready to turn herself in.While her whole life in Alaska has been a masquerade, for Luke it is his only reality.Suddenly, everything-from the baseball season to his very identity-is in jeopardy.
As Luke witnesses his mother's struggle to face up to the mistakes of her youth, he begins to understand his own hopes and fears-and who he really is.Free Radical is both a contemporary coming-of-age story and a moving depiction of a parent's guilt and need for forgiveness.
