All the Fine Boys

Fourteen-year-old best friends Jenny and Emily are hungry for experience and eager for “real life” to begin, and in suburban South Carolina in the late ’80s, experience equals boys. Emily chooses her senior crush from the high school play, and Jenny a man she’s seen at her family’s church. With parallel stories that take tricky and terrifying turns, Erica Schmidt’s All the Fine Boys dives deep into the fascinations and complications of sexual awakening and the first painful gasps of adulthood.