It was an accident. He didn’t mean to kill the security
guard with his skateboard—it was self-defense. But there’s
no one to back up his story. No one even knows he was at
Paranoid Park. Should he confess, or can he get away with
it? It’s an ethical question no one should have to answer.
Writing more intensely than ever before, Blake Nelson
delivers a film noir in book form, complete with interior
monologue and dark, psychological drama. This is a riveting
look at one boy’s fall into a world of crime, guilt, and
fear—and his desperate attempt to get out again.