Smallfish Clover, like most affluent American boys, has many skills
and inner resources. But how these gifts get used in the real world
can lead to success and happiness, or useless death. It’s a test all
young people must take at some time or another, although in our
society we often try to postpone it indefinitely. The children of poverty, however, don’t have the luxury of wasting difficult decisions. And in a sense, the writing of this book was a kind of
incantation to protect my own children from making bad choices
with terrible consequences.

Heather Shaw paints a beautiful masterpiece of a story that leaves the reader feeling proud, sad, and somewhat confused—much like Smallfish and his friends feel much of the time. This is powerful, reality-based fiction—albeit of a reality few of us know, and one which no boy should ever have to face head-on the way Smallfish does. —Daniel Jolley, Top 50
Reviewer at Amazon.com

…Shaw deftly evokes the wonder of an ordinary individual’s ability to
affect changes beyond his wildest dreams. —ForeWord Magazine