Jason Balistreri

American Dividing Lines Jason Balistreri

Bodhi Andersen is a high school boy in Minnesota who helps a girl in trouble. That girl is Mary Anne Coughlin and the Coughlins are an enigmatic family with wild boys and a powerful patriarch. Bodhi was once friends with two of the Coughlin boys when all the neighborhood kids played out in the woods, but they drifted apart when they all went to high school. Now they want to be friends with him again but Brennan Coughlin has changed. He's not the same kid Bodhi once knew, he has reinvented himself, and Bodhi must decide if he wants to get involved with the Coughlins or go back to his solitary life, while all of their childhood joys and fears wait out in the woods.