Another Day in Paradise (novel)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another Day in Paradise is a novel by Eddie Little published in 1997. Set in the early 70s, it tells the story of the protagonist, a fourteen-year-old runaway named Bobbie, transforming from a meth addict and amateur thief to a heroin addict and accomplished safe-cracker, with the help of his mentor Mel.

[edit] Summary

The story begins with Bobbie and his seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Rosie, living in an abandoned building, shooting up meth, and having sex. When they run out of drugs, Bobbie goes out to steal money from a vending machine to score. It takes him all day to find an abandoned one on a college campus. He breaks into it and is about to make it when a security officer sees him. They fight and he gets a concussion. He manages to get back to the flophouse, but is on the verge of dying. His friend Danny tells him to hang on, and he tries to.

When he next awakes, someone named Mel is there. Mel cooks up a rig of heroin for his pain and generally helps him to heal. He warns him not to do any meth or it could lead to an aneurysm. As Bobbie slowly heals he learns very little about his savior, except that he wants him to help Mel with a huge score. Rosie returns from jail - she tried to whore herself out to get meth, but got busted - and the two of them agree to join Mel in Chicago, along with Mel's girl, Syd.

This summary is incomplete.