17-year-old Jim Quinn from the Bronx suddenly finds himself at a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. His teachers and roommate find their own lives altered in profound ways as they wrestle with a passionate, explosive young man on the edge of salvation or destruction. “PRODIGAL SON is a heart-sore portrait of adolescent turmoil that bears the stamp of hard-earned truth on every scene…the best thing that Mr. Shanley has given us since DOUBT.” – The Wall Street Journal