In the 1970s seaside town of Largo, Florida, a teenager discovers why his mom called his first real girlfriend a "brick shithouse." Based on (sometimes faulty) recollections of real events, BRICKS is a memoir of sorts that introduces young readers of today to a place where their parents (or grandparents) lived when THEY were that age: where children were turning into adults, hormones raged, school was a drag, and where a double standard applied as between girls and boys - especially when it comes to sex.