This is not the sugar-coated version of the oldest profession popularized by musical comedies. Author Jason Lesley, former Georgetown Times reporter/editor and Coastal Observer reporter, has turned many of the apocryphal anecdotes about Sunset Lodge into a sweet-and-sour fictional story with real pain and very real consequences. Written from the perspective of a 14-year-old "pimply-faced boy beginning the slow, humiliating journey to manhood," the lure of the lodge and its diverse victims propel him through coming-of-age rituals, along with tragic lessons in classism, sexism, and racism.