As Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger by way of adolescence, he learns one among life’s most essential classes: When coping with ladies and cretins, nothing is ever fairly because it appears. “I am virtually a person in most areas,” writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The yr is 1992 and, in South Africa, radical change is within the air. The nation could also be on the bumpy street to an unsure future, however Spud Milton is hoping for a clean experience as he returns to boarding faculty as a senior. As a substitute, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is again to taunt him and {that a} garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, together with the common inmates and misfits he calls buddies. Spud’s world has by no means appeared much less sure; he makes an attempt to grasp Shakespeare, wrestles consistently along with his God, and the facility of detrimental pondering, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a stunning discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.