The Last Real One

Dylan McGehin graduated high school a year and a half early, landed aglass-building internship off the 215, and lasted three weeks - right upuntil he watched nine adults close their eyes in a conference room topractice gratitude on a schedule. This is the story of the week after. The week he handed back his lanyard, said the one true thing he'd never said to his father, and met a girlnamed Ara who could out-notice him at his own game.
Somewhere between anabandoned dairy full of rusting silos and his twelve-year-old sisterthrowing a lunch tray at a girl who'd gone fake, Dylan starts to untanglethe difference between being right about the world and actually beingalive in it. Told in the sharp, funny, unbearably honest voice of a narrator who can'tstop cataloguing everyone's performance - including his own - THE LASTREAL ONE is a modern Inland Empire answer to a classic: a coming-of-agestory about the cost of seeing through everything, and the harder, bettertrick of learning to look for what's real instead.