Audio Book Description:
Tommy`s nickname is Lucky, but no one would think this crippled boy was blessed. Cursedwith health problems and drawn into trouble more often thannot, Tommy is the recipient of pity rather than admiration.He is nothing like his stepbrother, Eric. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seeminglyendless supply of good fortune--he is charming a star athlete, and a magnet for anyone in his sphere. Yet in spite of these difference, Eric and Tommyare as close as two humans can be. After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys split. In a powerful story of modernday resilience and redemption, Tommy and Eric forge their separete ways in the world, eachconfronting hi own challenges. For Tommy this meansdropping out of school, sellingdrugs, living on the streets, and somehow creating a family of his own. For Eric, the golden youth, life means athletics,sexual attraction, prosperity, and the uncertainty that comes with prizes won too easily. Given everything he trusts nothing. Eric and Tommy`s parallel livesare an astonishing story of self determination and the true measure of fortune. The ties that bind them are thickerthan blood, and whencircumstances reunite Eric and Tommy after years apart, their distinct approaches to life may be the only thingthat can save them from forces thatthreaten to destroy them.
