In Jack, A.M. Homes, author of the forthcoming novel The Unfolding, gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normalโeven if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jackโs father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son heโs gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jackโs struggle to redefine what โfamilyโ means, A. M. H ...Full description
In Jack, A.M. Homes, author of the forthcoming novel The Unfolding, gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normalโeven if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jackโs father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son heโs gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jackโs struggle to redefine what โfamilyโ 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.