Paradise Rules
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
TRUE OR F A L S E ?
It’s only a week into summer break and already seventeen-year-old Gates has . . .
a) Hustled millionaires on the golf course
b) Tried to stop his mother from having a(nother) nervous breakdown
c) Promised to lose his virginity with his girlfriend, Mel . . . which would be great if he hadn’t already lost it to his forty-year-old godmother
d) Almost killed a man
Yeah, Gates has a lot of secrets, but he’s determined to keep his heart true. When he’s not swinging golf clubs like a pro, he reads pulp fiction to old folks at the retirement home. And despite his occasional slip-ups—drinking before noon and sneaking glimpses through his sexy godmother’s open negligees—Gates only has eyes for Mel. But she knows he’s hiding something, and she’s beginning to lose her patience.
Just as Gates is about to spill his shameful secrets, he gets tangled up in a golf club scandal that jeopardizes his dreams of a normal life. He’s never been a fighter, but this time he finally pushes back at the world—which could have been a breakthrough but turns into an epic fail. Probably because Gates fights back dirty. Now his life is on the verge of ruin, and he’s got no one to turn to for help.
Or so he thinks. Because what Gates is about to discover might hit him with the most amazing shock of his life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gleacher (Silly Little Rich Girl) creates a teenage boy with a smart mouth, a good soul, and a life that is being thoroughly screwed up by the adults around him. At 17, Gates (aka Caspar, aka Fun Buns) is a star on the golf team and in a relationship with Melanie, whose dad, when drunk on the links where Gates caddies, likes to cop a feel of his backside (hence the nickname). Melanie is eager to lose her virginity, but the guilt that Gates feels over having slept with his godmother renders him impotent, straining their relationship ("Unlike the truth, a flaccid penis is impossible to hide"). Gates reads to old people, is best friends with a male model named Tommy Tommy Tommy (he stutters and suffers from OCD), has to contend with a suicidal mother, and fleeces golfers for the country club manager. Yet Gates still sees the good in people, even when his life begins to unravel. Gates is a lovable, witty narrator, a little boy forced to grow up too soon hiding behind the healthy bravado of the men's locker room. Gleacher brings levity and wit to a coming-of-age tale reminiscent of Caddyshack.
