Keir Sarafian may not know much, but he knows himself. And the one thing he knows about himself is that he is a good guy. A guy who's a devoted son and brother, a loyal friend, and a reliable teammate. And maybe most important of all, a guy who understands that when a girl says no, she means it. But that is not what Gigi Boudakian, childhood friend and Keir's lifelong love, says he is. What Gigi says he is seems impossible to Keir....It is something inexcusable -- the worst thing he can imagine, the very opposite of everything he wants to be. As Keir recalls the events leading up to his fateful night with Gigi, he realizes that the way things look are definitely not the way they really are -- and that it may be all too easy for a good guy to do something terribly wrong. Chris Lynch has written a no-holds-barred story about truth, lies, and responsibility -- a story that every good guy needs to hear.
Tall, athletic high school senior Keir Sarafian considers himself to be an all-around good guy, fun and popular. However, Gigi Boudakian's accusation of ****** irrevocably changes everything forever. From a tightly-knit motherless family with a loving, "quasi-alcoholic" father, Ray, and two spunky older sisters, Fran and Mary, Keir thinks of his family and life as ideal. But his world begins to slowly unravel after he cripples a fellow player in a football game, earning him the nickname "Killer." Keir stumbles through endless pranks and parties in a drunken, and often drug-induced, haze, not really understanding what he's doing, or why he's there. The life-altering, disturbing aftermath of a fateful graduation party is interspersed throughout this painful, intense young adult novel, possibly the only one of its kind narrated by a perpetrator of ******. A 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: Sports + Recreation / Football, Family / General, General, Boys + Men
- Age: Teen
- Publisher: Atheneum
- Pages: 165
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 20, 2012
- Date Published: March 20, 2012
- Author: Chris Lynch