Coconut Hero

Its not easy being a teenager and Mike a sixteenyearold has it espcially hard He lives in the sticks with his mother a nonstop nagger in Faintville a Canadian timber industry town He has no father no friends not even a favorite meal Basically his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth One day Mike writes his own obituary and shoots himself To his great disappointment he wakes up the in the local hospital During a routine examination the doctors discover a plumsized tumor in his brain Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself to avoid undergoing surgery that would save him Staring death directly in the eyes however changes Mikes point of view and he reevaluates his opinion of both enchanting and crazy Miranda Somebody seems to understand him after all