![]() Peep shows, orgies, and secret meetings with priests mark these shadowy transitions. Post–Vatican II, long-haired, friendly priests collide with straitlaced, strict ones. ![]() Hippie culture divides the gang in the second part, as it does culture at large. School pranks, class outings, and after-school jobs reveal the boys’ emerging personalities, establishing a high-energy pace. ![]() In the first, puberty besets the friends and their classmates. The book’s three parts each focus on distinct kinds of tumult. Chili starts seminary feeling ostracized from his former friends-until a scandal implicates his family. Chili comes home early, disgusted by the San Francisco commune they visited, and learns that his brother is missing and his father is worse off. A high school graduation road trip to California ends in disaster. Angel and Mikey tease Chili over his religiosity. As they enter different high schools, they begin to diverge. Angel seeks a lucrative career in line with his monied family’s traditions.Īfter school, the three meet in a retired fallout shelter to drink, smoke, and plan shenanigans. ![]() While his father drowns his sorrow in beer and manual labor, Chili is determined to fulfill his dead mother’s wishes that he care for his younger brother, Jamie, and become a priest. In Steven Schindler’s novel Fallout Shelter, three boys from the Bronx stick together through their Catholic educations, career choices, and crises of faith.Ĭhili, Mikey, and Angel met at St. Set during a turbulent era, Fallout Shelter follows as three Catholic men come of age-and as their friendships change. ![]()
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