Today, Oh Boy: Set in Summerville, South Carolina, during the early 1970s, Today, Oh Boy is a coming-of-age novel about friendship, class, cultural change, and the uneasy passage from youth into adulthood.
Told with humor, affection, and a sharp eye for local detail, the novel follows a close-knit group of young people as they navigate love, betrayal, and moral reckoning in a town small enough to remember everything—and forgive very little.
Praised by Kirkus Reviews as “dazzling” and “quietly sublime,” the novel captures a vanished moment in Southern life while exploring the timeless costs of growing up.
Wesley Moore III is the author of the memoir Long Ago Last Summer and the novel Today, Oh Boy, both rooted in the landscapes and culture of the South Carolina Lowcountry. A retired English teacher, Moore spent decades teaching literature and writing at Porter-Gaud School.
Today, Oh Boy inspired the award-winning short film Summerville 70 and was praised by Kirkus Reviews for its “dazzling characters” and “quietly sublime” sense of period. Moore has recently completed a standalone sequel to Today, Oh Boy titled Too Much Trouble.