CAMPBELL'S BOY

Historical fiction, coming of age tale set in Northern California in the late 1800s...

After the death of his mother on the wagon train out west, Emmet Campbell struggles to find his place in the world. Fighting off town bullies, an evil Irish stepmother and his own learning disabilities, he mostly fends for himself in the boomtown of Colusa, California.

While struggling to find his footing, he never loses his curiosity about the world around him and the people in it. Scuffling and skylarking along the way, Emmet eventually discovers family and identity in places he could have never imagined. With equal measures of the dark and the light, Campbell’s Boy is a tender coming of age tale about what it means to be human.