The Bastard Year    by Richard Zuras
Price: $9.99 USD. 38400 words. Published by Brandylane  Publishers on April 5, 2012. Fiction.
This debut novel tells the story of a boy’s final year of childhood and a family’s near disintegration. When Zain’s father is fired from the CIA in March of 1980, it creates a tremor that threatens to upend the family’s precarious balance. Zain’s awakening to a world riddled with cracks and his adolescent attempts to mend them are the stuff from which young men, and great stories, are made.