A walking badass of a book."- Rolling Stone "Don is a great writer. His work is worth reading." - Henry RollinsHallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely uplifting odysseys, from hope to despair and back again. Author, screenwriter, actor, and performerDon Bajema lives in New York City. | Winged Shoes and a Shield by Don Bajema, Paperback | Indigo Chapters