Evanston Mother-Son Duo’s Raw, Bittersweet Novel Illuminating America’s Boy Crisis is Badly Needed for Our Times
Published by My Delightful Life Press on February 11, 2025, Promising Young Man by Elias Axel (pen name of writer Patricia L. Stankovic & editor Julian Josip) is a coming-of-age story narrated by misunderstood, mistake-riddled, Oscar, a troubled-18-year-old on the cusp of high school graduation who loses his sense of wonder as he tries to navigate societal expectations and his own perceived shortcomings until a scrape with the law changes everything.
