Hi-Ho, Sir Homer

Hi-Ho Sir Homer portrays a young Nebraskan boy's experiences in the fifties. It will be hard for anyone who didn't grow up in those times to imagine how naive boys could be back then. Here's the best I can do to encapsulate those days--sex education for boys, if you were lucky, consisted of a highly inaccurate book in your underwear drawer. Imagine that background as preparation for free love in the sixties. In Hi-Ho, teenagers from small town, insulated Nebraska, confront universal subjects--love, sex, death, murder and homosexuality. Their response, especially that of the protagonist, Chris, will sometimes stretch a 21st century reader’s ability to suspend disbelief; but the story, viewed through Chris’s awkward naivete, will, I believe, pull you in and keep you reading to the very last page.