In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.
- ISBN10 067006081X
- ISBN13 9780670060818
- Publish Date 25 June 2009
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 26 May 2016
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Viking Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 532
- Language English