Mostly Boys: Short Stories

These are rollicking tales of American boys navigating school, mischief, friendship, and faith. Finn populates his stories with every variety of lad: the mischievous, the earnest, the shy, the bold. Each story crackles with the kind of healthy chaos that defined boyhood in an earlier America. A Jesuit priest, Finn never preaches, but his characters learn lessons about honesty, loyalty, and kindness through experiences boys recognize as true to life. The humor is warm and sometimes irreverent, the situations ranging from classroom capers to neighborhood adventures. These aren't sanitized morals wrapped in cardboard; they're lived stories where boys stumble, laugh, and grow. Over a century later, they retain their essential vitality because the boys in them remain recognizably human: sometimes selfish, sometimes brave, always trying to figure out how to be good.