Bookshop Interview with Author Don Silver, Episode #214

Author Don Silver discusses his latest coming-of-age thriller, Scorched. In the novel, Jonas Shore had a difficult home life as a teenager in the 1970s. After his father’s unexpected death when he was just fifteen, Jonas began selling drugs in order to help support himself and his mother. After he was arrested, he was sent to a boarding school for fatherless boys where he was involved in a violent altercation that had deadly consequences. Twenty years later, Jonas’s childhood actions come back to haunt him, and he is forced to deal with his complicated past.