Joe Pernice

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths), and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid, and so melodic that you could cling to it like a lifeboat in a...