He sees one of life's most crucial lessons as Spud Milton continues his awkward wracking through adolescence: When coping with women and cretins, nothing is quite as it appears. "I am virtually a guy in many areas," writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 andin South Africa, radical change is from the atmosphere. The country could be to an uncertain future about the road, since he returns to boarding school as a 31, but Spud Milton is expecting for a ride. Insteadhe discovers a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory that his vindictive archenemy goes back to taunt him. The world of spud never seemed less certain. He wrestles together with his God, and also the power of negative thinking attempts to master Shakespeare, and develops an aversion to bass after having a shocking discovery on his grandmother, Wombat.