In summer of 1965, Christopher Ricci's mother has runaway. Unable to take care of him, his father decides to leave the thirteen year old with his own sister in upstate New York. In this poignant coming of age novel, Chris tries his best to adapt to life in rural New York, navigate first love, and make sense of his changing world.

Richard Vetere's teleplay adaptation of his published stage play "The Marriage Fool," starring Walter Matthau, Carol Burnet and John Stamos, is now streaming on Amazon. His novel "The Writers Afterlife," published in 2014, was called "a unique caper of magic realism" by Publishers Weekly. His new play "Zaglada," was published by Dramatic Publishing in 2019. His screenplay "Caravaggio," an adaptation of his own published stage play, won the Golden Palm Award for Best Screenplay at the Beverly Hills International Film Festival in 2021. His "Live Fast, Die Young & Leave a Good-Looking Corpse: a memoir of the 1970s" was published in 2021. He co-wrote the movie "The Third Miracle," which is a screenplay adaptation of his own novel, published by Simon & Schuster. It was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, directed by Agnieszka Holand, and stars Ed Harris and Anne Heche. He has a master's degree in Comparative English Literature from Columbia University and has lectured on screenwriting and playwrighting in the master's program at NYU and lectures now at Queens College. In 2005, the Frank Melville Library at Stony Brook University created the Richard Vetere Collection, an archive of his work. RichardVetereauthor.com