Cambridge street

Each day, Andrew Lawrence travels Cambridge Street with "the big college dorm buildings from MIT and Harvard and all those big shot schools" rising behind him. He has ambitions -- to win the love of his beautiful Harvard-educated student teacher, Eleanor; to teach his mentally disabled brother to defend himself; ultimately, live life as a famous writer -- but "here" keeps getting in the way. His determinedly honest, wildly imaginative, often naive voice guides us from "here" to Harvard: a place that looks different in dreams.