Description
Wild Boys is the wonderful, witty, sometimes rowdy and irreverent coming-of-age story of Christian and Jordan Wild, twin brothers growing up on the campus of the elite girls' school where their father serves as headmaster. The story focuses on their teen years, when their parents' interest in having a third child touches off new anxieties. Christian, the more reserved of the two, narrates the main events of their complex--loving, conspiratorial, inevitably rivalrous--relationship. They are, at times, as unconstrained as any other teens, and the troubles they find lay bare the Wild family's startling yet relatable vulnerabilities, driving Christian himself almost to the breaking point. This story hits us with the force of revelation, showing what matters most in the unpredictable drama of life.
Author: Rita Ciresi
Publisher: Wolfson Press
Published: 06/30/2026
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.13w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9781950066261
ISBN10: 1950066266
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Places | United States
- Fiction | Family Life | Siblings
About the Author
Rita Ciresi is author of the novels Bring Back My Body to Me, Blue Italian, Pink Slip, and Remind Me Again Why I Married You; the story collections Sometimes I Dream in Italian and Mother Rocket; and the flash fiction collections Female Education and Second Wife. Her awards include the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Series, the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize for the Novel, and the Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Contest. Ciresi has received support from the state arts councils of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida. She has been in residence at the American Academy in Rome, Hawthornden International Writers' Retreat, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Martha's Vineyard Writers Residency, Virginia Center for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. She has written the first and final drafts of most of her work at the Ragdale Foundation. She is professor emerita of English at the University of South Florida in Tampa.