The Sweets At Dawn

On getting a hefty kick in the seat of his pants in the end of the first book, the lyrical hero of the story rocketed up out of the tender Continent Childhood. An invisibly parabolic trajectory lands him in the thick of provincial Soviet life in northern Ukraine. Adolescence began—the process of becoming a 'cut-off slice' followed by 'hardening', the loss of friendships, the collapse of dreams, and their replacement with brand new ones. Just like by everyone else. Then, of its own accord, came the 'time of folly youth'. Changes in the heroic anatomy entail the growth of new instincts, and the protagonist charts an independent course into the open sea of his personality's sexual maturation.