Golden Boys
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
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'Warm, witty and tremendously wise, I adored this book' - Simon James Green, author of 'Noah Can't Even'
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From the author of The Gravity Of Us comes a sweet and compelling coming-of-age story that explores identity, the importance of found family and the complexities of falling for your best friend.
Gabriel, Reese, Sal and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small rural town by their queerness, their good grades and their big dreams. But now it's the summer before their last year of high school, and each of them is going on a huge new adventure. Reese has a design internship in Paris, Gabriel is going to Boston for an internship with a charity organisation and Sal is volunteering on Capitol Hill for a senator - while Heath is stuck going to Florida to help his aunt's business.
What will this summer of new experiences and world-expanding travel mean for each of them - and for their friendship?
Don't miss the sequel, Afterglow, coming February 2023...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Friends since preschool, Gabriel, Heath, Reese, and Sal are all gay and implied white in small-town Ohio. The summer before senior year, they'll be apart for the first time. While Gabriel helps an environmental group in Boston, Sal's interning with a senator in Washington, D.C., the distance placing their friends-with-benefits arrangement on hold. And while Heath makes money working for his long-estranged aunt in Daytona Beach, Reese studies graphic design in Paris. The friends alternate narration and chime in to group chats, talking through—and sometimes glossing over—their difficulties. Gabriel's anxious enough without having to accost strangers on the street for donations. Sal's internship is so disorganized it borders on exploitative. Heath and Reese are both suffering from unrequited love, and Reese is less than certain about continuing with his course of study. Stamper (As Far as You'll Take Me) has written a good-natured duology opener—all four guys genuinely care for and support one another—about navigating the familial, romantic, and vocational challenges that come with taking their first steps away from home and familiarity. Ages 13–up.
