The author presents this in the words of a somewhat disengaged teen, without the language of political correctness just about to reset the dialog of social interaction in the US. The setting is the segregationist South of the 1960s, with all the crumbling certainties of a way of life long overdue for a radical transformation. The story is told as a first-person narrative by a teen nicknamed "Trotsky"-a clever and striking device in itself since it helps introduce the politics that informs the background of some of the main characters.
In Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada Keith Hale has written a highly sensitive and engagingly intelligent tale of a young man's transition from the comforting sureties childhood thru the turbulence of adolescence towards a bleaker, but more staid understanding of life as an adult.
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