The central character is Lee, a teenaged boy whose parents have recently decided on a divorce and have sent their son off to Florida to live with his grandmother. Lee is an essentially likable and sympathetic boy although by no means idealized. He was expelled from school for throwing a cherry bomb in the toilet in the principal's office. He is, however, extremely considerate of his grandmother and quite determined to be an adult about his new living arrangement. Unfortunately for him, the retirement community is not designed for the younger generation, so that he finds himself not only bored but actually shunned and even feared. When he quite by chance meets an older woman who is a retired psychic, he is intrigued by the opportunity she offers him for something interesting to do. When the enterprise is revealed as fraudulent, he faces a...