The Borrow a Boyfriend Club
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- 59,00 kr
Publisher Description
A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who joins a boyfriend borrowing service masquerading as an Italian Club to prove that he’s one of the guys, especially to its frustratingly handsome leader.
Noah Byrd is the perfect boy. At least, that’s what he needs to convince his new classmates of to prove his gender. His plan? Join the school’s illustrious (and secret) Borrow a Boyfriend Club, whose members rent themselves out for dates. Once he’s accepted among the bros, the “slip-ups” end.
But Noah’s interview is a flop. Desperate, he strikes a deal with the club’s prickly but attractive president, Asher. Noah will help them win an annual talent show—and in return, he’ll get a second shot to demonstrate his boyfriend skills in a series of tests that include romancing Asher himself.
If Noah can’t bring home the win, his best chance to prove that he’s man enough is gone. Yet even if he succeeds, he still loses . . . because the most important rule of the Borrow a Boyfriend Club is simple: no real boyfriends (or girlfriends) allowed.
And as long as the club remains standing as high as Asher’s man bun, Noah and Asher can never explore their growing feelings for one another.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Powars's debut, a sensitively wrought enemies-to-lovers romance, stars a teen who joins a secret high school club in which students volunteer to be rent-a-boyfriends for fellow classmates. Transgender 16-year-old former dancer Noah Byrd is determined to "blend in like a normal teenage guy" at his new high school in Ann Arbor, Mich. Hoping to join the most masculine-seeming activity he can find, he signs up for the Football and Lamborghini Club, unaware that it's a cover for the Borrow a Boyfriend Club, a service that sets students up on dates with participating members for events. After failing the first-round interview of the highly selective membership process, he finagles a second chance from prickly president Asher Price by promising to choreograph a dance that will help the club win a lucrative talent contest. As Noah grapples with the fear of being outed as trans, as well as body dysmorphia amplified by his return to dancing—which he gave up during his transition because "boys don't dance"—he develops feelings for Asher. In vulnerable first-person prose, Powars renders Noah's feelings about his gender identity alongside sweet messaging surrounding the power of friendship and connection. Ages 12–up.
