As Spud Milton stumbles into puberty, he learns one of life's most valuable lessons: nothing is ever entirely as it seems. "I'm almost a man," Spud writes confidently on his sixteenth birthday. In 1992, drastic change is in the air in South Africa. Spud Milton, a senior returning to boarding school, hopes for a pleasant voyage. Instead, he finds his vengeful arch adversary taunting him and a boisterous Malawian living in his dormitory with his normal convicts and misfits. Trying to perfect Shakespeare, Spud battles his God and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after learning tragic news about his grandmother, Wombat.
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As Spud Milton stumbles into puberty, he learns one of life's most valuable lessons: nothing is ever entirely as it seems. "I'm almost a man," Spud writes confidently on his sixteenth birthday. In 1992, drastic change is in the air in South Africa. Spud Milton, a senior returning to boarding school, hopes for a pleasant voyage. Instead, he finds his vengeful arch adversary taunting him and a boisterous Malawian living in his dormitory with his normal convicts and misfits. Trying to perfect Shakespeare, Spud battles his God and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after learning tragic news about his grandmother, Wombat.
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