![]() ![]() Rounded characters large and small, drawn with insight and empathy, drive the plot.īuoyant writing and wry humor balance the pathos in this powerful debut, a moving tale of friendship as refuge and shield against a hostile world ![]() Constrained by his teacher role, Peter-the adult best-equipped to offer support-can do little as stresses mount. ![]() Well-intentioned but unfit to parent a gay teen, she threatens to send him to a group home. Terrified to return to school, he lies about where he spends his days to his foster mother. Orphaned, openly gay Sebby has endured multiple foster placements. Their high expectations weigh heavily on Mira. Mira’s the biracial daughter of a workaholic black lawyer and white stay-at-home mom her high-achieving sister’s at Harvard. Jeremy’s the child of supportive, emotionally mature dads. Whether it can replace adult support is another matter. Their bond became a lifeline for each now their friendship nourishes Jeremy. There, she met Sebby, who’d been savagely beaten by school homophobes. His first recruit is Mira, whose crippling depression last year landed her in a hospital psych ward. Francis Prep, but at a teacher’s urging, he reluctantly starts an art club. Having been brutally outed by classmates, Jeremy dreads returning to St. Failed by the institutions and adults who rule their lives, three stressed-out teens rely on their friendship to overcome-or at least survive-abuse, depression, and homophobia. ![]()
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