ABSTRACT

At 22, Eddy is still just a kid. In moments of boredom his dazzling smile warps into some silly face. He loses his keys, his money, his ID card—his friends joke that he forgets his last name. Yet Eddy seems incapable of much anguish. Like the sad story of his childhood, any crisis is shrugged off like a cloudy day at the beach. It is easy to see how Anthony has come to play “father figure” to this attractive Navy radioman of Pacific Island ancestry.