Hardcore-Softcore | Lexiphane.com

Lacking mothers--Dylan's mother abandons him and his father at an early age and Mingus is essentially sold into the custody of his father by his own mother--the pair spend their young lives navigating the perils of young men adrift in the lawless city that is youth. ..... His journey brings him to a hotel they once shared, a successful actor he went to grade school with, and a 13-year-old girl with pathologically bad parents [one of whom is a simulacrum of the author]. ...