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This much-talked about young adult novel, narrated imaginatively and highly originally entirely through lists, has LGBT identities at its heart, showing beautifully and honestly the relationships between emotionally confused teenagers and their parents.
Darren hasn't had an easy year. His parents divorced, his brother left for college, and his best friend moved state. Also, he still doesn't have a girlfriend.
Then his dad shows up at 6am with a glazed chocolate donut and a pretty world-shaking revelation. In full freak-out mode, Darren ditches school and jumps on a bus to visit his brother, Nate, at college. But someone weird / amazing comes along for the ride.
This hilarious and poignant novel perfectly captures why having anything to do with anyone is:
1. painful
2. unavoidable
3. ridiculously complicated
4. possibly, hopefully, the right thing after all.
''Hasak-Lowy has inevitably created something completely refreshing, a new reading experience that speaks to the exuberance, imaginativeness and creativeness of youth and the flexibility, freedom and multiplicity of their thoughts… A sort of teen stream-of-consciousness, replete with all its seemingly irreverent, irrelevant and incomplete musings. This novel exemplifies everything that is exciting and refreshing about contemporary Young Adult literature, its fearlessness and unabashed honesty, its agony and ecstasy.” - The Bookseller
Author: Todd Hasak-Lowy.
Paperback, 644 pages, Published 2015.