Art Shulman’s The Billy Chronicles is a coming-of-age novel that’s both laugh-out-loud funny and unexpectedly profound—character-driven literary fiction with a beating heart and a sharp sense of humor.

Seventeen-year-old Billy Harrington—bright, athletic, and effortlessly likable—has his world upended when his girlfriend tells him she’s pregnant. At once emotionally complex and irresistibly entertaining, The Billy Chronicles is a fresh, funny, deeply human look at what it means to come of age when life refuses to go according to plan.

Told unconventionally, two interwoven threads alternate chapters—about Billy’s dilemma, and then about one year at a time from toddlerhood to sixteen, each episode capturing the comical, poignant moments that shaped him. With each chapter filtered through the voice and mindset of Billy at that age, the story builds a layered, evolving portrait of a boy stumbling—often hilariously—toward manhood.

Grab your copy of The Billy Chronicles, and you’ll soon find yourself laughing, reflecting, and cherishing every page.