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Summary from the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

D*** McDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations.

Excerpts:

“D*** had known it since he could remember.” (p.3)

“He was on a train with the fathers—all naked and cookie-colored and laughing … All the bunching calf muscles dripping water and biceps full of power comforted D***.” (p.3)

“Grandma F*** [D***’s Grandmother] had two friends named Martin and Merlin who were afraid in a way D*** didn’t want to be.” (p.5) “…They [Martin and Merlin] had been hurt because of who they were. D*** didn’t want to be hurt that way.” (p.6)

D*** makes a new friend, P**. He and P** were at D***’s house discussing a Jimi Hendrix poster on the bedroom wall: “ ‘My mom went out with this gross trucker guy once.’ P** told him. ‘He saw the Jimi poster in my room and goes, ‘That nigger looks like he’s got a mouth full of cum.’ I wanted to kill him.” (p.16)

“P** took a cigarette out of his pocket.” (p.17)

“ ‘ Where did you get that?’ D*** asked.” (p.17)

“ ‘I steal them from my mom.’” (p.17)

D*** and P** meet two girls, T***** and N****. All four go to T*****’s house since her mother is not home. The boys go into the Jacuzzi and the girls follow right after they go to get “beers and a joint.” (p.24)

Later in the book:

“D*** knew there was nothing he could say to the boy that would change what he thought about the thing [a tattoo of a Swastika] inked into his flesh…But he said it anyway.” (p.45) “Fuck fascist skinhead shit.” (p.45) “Fuck you.” (p.45) “Skinheads were all on him at once…he wondered if he deserved this because he wanted to kiss and touch a boy.” (p.45)

This book does not improve in terms of content. In many of the books (written by this author) located in school library databases, we found that Francesca Lia Block writes with such a vulgarity and foulness that we believe to be inappropriate for children of any age.

Research by M. Lyn