/lit/ - Literature

Just abandoned third novel in a year. Looking at maybe a novella, something slim. It'll be in two parts, one taking place in a single day, at a wedding. The wedding features a protagonist, a seventeen year old who has a conversation with an old Mexican man, whose daughter, the bride, just had a severe mental breakdown. The old man give the young man nuggets of wisdom, insight into life, into love and all that. It fills with man to do something with his life, giving an optimistic view of the future of a new generation of youth. The second part deals with the days after, how fast he loses the delight in his virtues of adulthood and masculinity. It will focus on situations involving drugs, and petty crime and...wow...I think I just realized that this is a bad idea.
Okay, now I'm at square one. Any suggestions?