coventry

Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.

The author describes how the 1970s game Dungeons and Dragons effected his teenage development and how millions of boys broke away from everything normal in order to become of part of the craze of fantasy role-playing associated with the game.