Book excerpt: Arnie Brucher, a teenage boy in the New York suburbs in the early sixties, struggles to make sense of his life while navigating and experimenting in the turbulent waters of that tumultuous decade as the Leave it to Beaver world that never was crumbles for good. Andrew Fisher is a clinical psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area the past 45 years. He lives there with his wife, dog, and baseball mitt.