Young adult novel has many mature themes

Here’s an interesting little batch of books from diverse sources:
Fall in One Day (Blue Moon; $19.99), by Craig Terlson, is advertised as a literary young adult novel. It takes place in 1973 and is about a 15-year-old boy named Joe. In the space of a year he watches his safe world collapse as his best friend is kidnapped by his deranged father and no one seems to be able to do anything about it, his parents spend more and more time apart and away from home, and the Watergate hearings provi