Cabin Pressure

What happens when a grown man returns to the site of his fondest childhood
memories? A wry, clear-eyed, and laugh-out-loud look at the transition to
adulthood.

Three months before getting married at age thirty-four, Josh Wolk decides to
treat himself to a "farewell to childhood" extravaganza: one last summer
working at the beloved Maine boys camp where he spent most of the eighties.
And there he finds out that there's no better way to see how much you've
changed than to revisit a place that hasn't changed at all.

In these eight hilarious, uncomfortable, enlightening weeks, Josh readjusts to
life teaching swimming and balancing on a thin metal cot in a cabin of
shouting, wrestling, wet-willie-dispensing fourteen-year-olds who, contrary to
the warnings of doomsaying sociologists, he finds indistinguishable from the
rowdy fourteen-year-olds of his day in any way other than their haircuts. With
his old camp friends gone, he finds himself working alongside guys who used to
be his campers. Moments of feeling cripplingly old are offset by the corrosive
insecurities of his youth when he's paired in the cabin with Mitch, the forty-
two-year-old jack-of-all-extreme-sports whose machismo intimidated Josh so
much fifteen years earlier, and whom their current campers idolize. And
throughout all this disorienting regression, Josh's telephone conversations
with his fiance, Christine, grow increasingly intense as their often-comical
discussions over the wedding become a flimsy cover for her worries that he's
not ready to relinquish his death-grip on the comforts of the past.

A hilarious and insightful look at the tenacious power of nostalgia, the glory
of childhood, and the nervous excitement of taking a leap to the next unknown
stage in life, Cabin Pressure will appeal to anyone who's ever been young,
wishes he was young again, but knows deep down it probably isnt a good idea.