Seventeen-year-old Leslie Faber just wanted to be liked, just wanted to be a part of the coveted “in crowd,” when she descended the stairs into the basement where several of the most popular high school jocks were gathered.  Although Leslie was friendly and interested in sports, the boys usually shunned the plain, developmentally disabled teen; they called her “retard” and mocked her eager overtures of friendship.  Why, then, were these boys – boys she had grown up with, boys who were the pride of the community – so eager to get Leslie into that basement?  When Leslie finally stumbled out of the basement, her life, the lives of four high school boys, and the entire community of Glen Ridge would never be the same.  In Our Guys, Bernard Lefkowtiz lays bare the charming, affluent town of Glen Ridge where the high school boys were treated as “princes” and anyone who threatened their bright future, even a vulnerable, shattered young woman, was seen as the enemy.