Seeing off the Johns
(Book)

For Concepcion "Chon" Gonzales, the year that high school athletic stars John Robison and John Mijias left for college and never made it was the beginning of a new life in his small town and the first time he understood about love.

People in the small Texas town of Greenton lined the streets when high school athletic stars John Robison and John Mijias left for state college. They never made it there -- or back. For Concepcion "Chon" Gonzales, that was the first day of his new life. He had waited all his growing up years for a shot at Araceli when one of the Johns, John Mejia, stole her away. Now, as the town mourns, Chon Gonzales makes his slow methodical move on the only girl he's ever loved, hoping maybe that she won't notice what he wants.