by Jock Young

Fraternities enjoy a long history of prominence on America 's college campuses. For many young men, an invitation to join a fraternity is a ticket to four (or five, or six) years of privilege, enjoying the bonds of brotherhood within a context of stately tradition. But that is only half of the story. In the most realistic examination of fraternity life ever written, Epsilon Zeta recreates in stunningly humorous and colorful detail the hazing, binge drinking, drug abuse, misogyny, racism, and homophobia found in one fraternity over the course of a semester on the fictional campus of Northwest Florida University . The novel is also a complex coming-of-age story, as one group of brothers faces a moral crisis that will live in their memories long after donning their caps and gowns.