 | Jack In Jack, A.M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal—even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack's struggle to redefine what "family" means, A.M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humor, charm, and resonance, the most convincing, funny, and insightful novel about adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye. |
 | Excerpt "Be careful," my father said before I'd even taken my foot off of the brake. "We don't have to do this," I said. "I can wait and get my license when I'm thirty—no problem. I can get Vernon, my driving teacher, to give me extra lessons." More |
 | Reviews The engaging, doggedly lunny 15-year-old protagonist of Jack is alive, living in the suburbs and not doing too well. Wisecracking his way along, in the first-person narrative of this novel for young adults. More |