Some of Tim's Stories — S.E. Hinton

From the author of The Outsiders: “Immediate and gripping” tales of two boys whose lives diverge in dramatic ways after a shared childhood tragedy (School Library Journal).
 
Terry and Mike were cousins who were as close as cousins could be -- more like twin brothers, really. They thought they were invincible and that the happy times would last forever, until the day their fathers headed off for their annual deer-hunting trip. That was when everything started to change, and their paths went in very different directions.
 
Years later, another fateful event will send one of them to prison -- and the other to a bartending job in Oklahoma -- while the prospect of an eventual reunion looms . . . 
 
From the award-winning author of That Was Then, This Is Now and Rumble Fish, “Some of Tim's Stories is a compact set of vignettes” full of “sharp, concise observation” (The New York Times).