As potato John Milton continue his awkward lurch through adolescence, he learn one of life’s to the highest degree of import lesson: When cover with woman and idiot, nil is of all time rather as it look. “I’ m practically a man in most area,” writes potato confidently on his 16th birthday. The twelvemonth is 1992 and, in South Africa, extremist alteration is in the air. The state may be on the bumpy route to an unsure hereafter, but potato John Milton is hope for a smooth drive as he return to board school as a senior. alternatively, he detect that his revengeful arch enemy is back to tease him and that a chatty Malawian has take abode in his dorm, along with the regular inmate and misfit he name friend. potato’s universe has ne'er look less certain; he try to get the hang William Shakespeare, wrestle invariably with his God, and the powerfulness of negative thought, and develop an antipathy to fry fish after a lurid find about his grandma, Wombat.