Joseph Bruno

Where Our Fathers Lie Buried Joseph Bruno

When Paul discovers a pack of cigarettes on his walk home, his life is changed forever. It's not that cigarettes are hard to come by in the mid 1950s, but Paul, a 13 year-old soon-to-be high schooler has never smoked one before. The way he sees it, when the opportunity to become acquainted with the mature, more sophisticated pleasures of contemporary adulthood presents itself, you take it. Though he has no idea what smoking a cigarette will actually be like, he knows that his first one has to be perfect. Paul begins devising a plan to travel with his best friend and pet dog to the quarry, a miles-long hike into the woods, where they can share their first smoke in secret. The only problem is that those cigarettes still belong to someone else; someone who misplaced the pack; someone who will not stop searching for them anytime soon. Where Our Fathers Lie Buried is an instant classic, a coming-of-age tale about identity, family, self-discovery, cigarettes, and innocence lost.