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LGBTQ | Fiction Family Life
From BOOKS TO WATCH OUT FOR by RICHARD LABONTE, Volume 4
number 1 - Adolescence is a hazardous way of life for
17-year-old Jeremy Tyler; his father died in a mysterious
accident when he was a child, and his mother has since
descended into alcoholic hell and forced rehab; that's when
he's sent from the Fresno slums of his childhood to the posh
estate of his overbearing great aunt Katherine and her
censorious husband - liberated from an economic prison, only
to land in an emotional one - and is overwhelmed by the
change. It's not easy for him to fit into the upper crust,
particularly because he's trying to hide how much he's
attracted to other boys. Jeremy's story of breaking free
from the strands of dishonesty, deceit, and self-doubt has
its parallels to the tale of Pinocchio, but Nolan's queer
take is totally contemporary: think the TV series The OC -
girls with mean cheekbones, well-built guys with snotty
attitudes, and Jeremy in the role of a queer Ryan Atwood.
He's a good-looking kid, with a sleek swimmer's physique -
and the swim team's champ is out to get him. He dates one of
the smart-set girls in an attempt to keep his gay hormones
at bay - but that doesn't do him much good. Nolan's debut
novel is a kitchen sink of genres - coming of age, coming
out, mystery, romance, erotica, even a dash of the
supernatural - that add up to an impressive story about the
passage from boyhood to manhood.
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