Fortunate Son, The End

I have only been reading this book for a little over a week, but I already finished it. It was an amazing book, even though it was very sad. The young boy, Thomas, goes off to live with his father in a bad neighborhood. He stops going to school, and spends all of his time in an abandoned alley behind his house. Here, he discovers many things such as small animals, birds, and a dead body. In the meantime, his "brother" Eric is leading an upper-class life in a nice neighborhood, however neither one of them has forgotten the other. Thomas becomes a homeless man living on the streets, and Eric lives in a dorm at UCLA. Eventually, they become reunited and suddenly. They end up across the country, and Thomas is in the hospital numerous times due to gunshot wounds and car crashes. In the end, in a crazy twist of circumstances, their problems are solved when a friend calls in political favors. They make it back to L.A., and you'll have to read the book to find out the entire story.