Winged Shoes and a Shield

"A walking badass of a book."—Rolling Stone

Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California''s post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie''s transformation from a boy''s innocence to a man''s hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely uplifting odysseys, from hope to despair and back again.

Author, screenwriter, actor, and performer Don Bajema lives in New York City, New York.