She struggles to raise Sam, and is devastated when she discovers his girlfriend, Alicia, is pregnant. She has a hostile relationship with her ex-husband (Sam's father). Annie Jones - Sam's 32-year-old mother.He has numerous dreams in which he is in the future, raising a child with Alicia. He has a poster of him to whom he talks about skate tricks and his life. Sam Jones is a troubled 16-year-old skateboarder, Sam is scared and unprepared to be a father.The book has a Fantasy element: The protagonist repeatedly has prophetic dreams in which he is projected months or years forward into his future, finding himself in a radically different life situation and having to piece out how his life has changed (or is going to change) - without letting the people around his future self notice his ignorance. The book's main theme is teenage pregnancy and it is written from the perspective of a teenager, Sam. Slam is a novel written by British author Nick Hornby, published in 2007.
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