![]() ![]() What she gets especially right is the teenagers themselves. There are some really difficult topics dealt with in this book – mental disorder, abuse, religious intolerance, community violence, teen sexuality – and Reardon handles them all with humor, plausibility and intelligence. Add onto this the sudden apparent interest of a handsome boy he’s been yearning for, and the added complication that adds to his life, and you can imagine the veritable monsoon of emotional storms battering Ethan Poe. Then his little rural Maine town stumbles into a separation of church and state fracas over the teaching of evolution in the local high school, and Ethan is pushed to the edge of his ability to ignore things that make him uncomfortable. This is one of those books that stands out, because the title character, Ethan Poe, undergoes a dramatic transformation during the few months in which the story unfolds, while at the same time remains exactly what he is the whole time: a sixteen-year-old boy.Įthan’s life seems to be crashing down around him: his parents, his best friend, his brother – all of them seem to be going off the rails. What prompts me to give any given book five stars is individuality – of style, of character, of setting, of plot arc. ![]() How did I miss this for nine years? Now, I’ve read a lot of YA books with LGBT main characters. ![]() ![]() “I don’t pay a lot of attention it’s not something I care about.” ![]()
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