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My guess on the program is the novelist John Brandon.

He's a professor at Ole Miss University and his new book is called Citrus County.

It's set in Citrus County, Florida, which is a simultaneously northern and southern part of Florida,

physically northern and culturally southern, a place where there are no beaches and vests.

People have not bothered to turn it into Orlando.

It's the story of two middle schoolers and middle school teacher and a horrible crime

and basically the feeling of being lost in one's life,

either as a very well justified adolescent or as a maybe slightly less justified almost 30-year-old.

John Brandon, welcome to the Sound of Young America.

Thanks a lot.

So can you describe the three main characters that are at the center of the book for us?

Yeah, like you said, the one adult is Mr. Hibba and he's a middle school teacher.

And I tried to teach high school a few years ago and I lasted a semester.

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