Senior Year

If you haven't read Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy's book Senior Year pick it up, particularly if you have son or daughter whose high school days are winding down. It's a quick and easy read, but well worth it.

A little back story: Shaughnessy's son, Sam, a baseball standout at his Massachusetts high school, is being recruited by Notre Dame and Boston College. Although Sam is a solid student and a pretty good kid, he faces his share of athletic and personal challenges, some of which catch the father by surprise. Senior Year is a month-by-month account of Sam's final year of high school filtered through the father's memories of his own high school days in rural Massachusetts.

Shaughnessy writes:

"For 18 years I'm screaming about wet towels on the bathroom floor. All of a sudden, there are no wet towels and you want wet towels on the floor."

To read an excerpt from Senior Year, click here. (Click on the white triangle on the right side of the "online reader" to advance pages.

For a comprehensive review of Senior Year, click here.

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