Jeffrey Willis has one last summer of carefree fun before college. That was until friends invited him out for an innocent day at their parents' fancy beach club on Long Island.

Suddenly a summer of packing groceries and lusting after stock girls becomes a season of discovery as he begins working as a cabana boy at the El Flamingo Beach Club. Here his eyes are opened to a world of beautiful people with seemingly perfect lives as he falls in love with a pretty beach girl Carla, turning his back on his family.

The Flamingo Kid is a sharply written amusing story that brings back the joys and pain for anyone who's ever been young, in love and in trouble!