In this fresh, poignant novel, Mike is struggling to come to terms with her father's suicide and her mother's detachment from the family. Mike (real name: Mary Elizabeth) is gay and likes to pump iron, play softball, and fix plumbing. When a glamorous new girl, Xanadu, arrives in Mike's small Kansas town, Mike falls in love at first sight. Xanadu is everything Mike is not -- cool, confident, feminine, sexy.... straight.
Julie Anne Peters has written a heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful novel that will speak to anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone who can't love them back.
ISBN: | 9780316127417 |
Publication date: | 2nd June 2011 |
Author: | Julie Anne Peters |
Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company an imprint of Little, Brown |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |