Summer school, a cute boy, and overbearing Armenian parentsโwhatโs a guy to do?Alek Khederian was looking forward to a relaxing summer. But when his parents announce that heโll be attending summer school in order to bring up his grades, Alek is sure this experience will be just as hellish as his freshman year of high school. But he never couldโve predicted that heโd meet someone like Ethan.Ethan is everythi ...Full description
Summer school, a cute boy, and overbearing Armenian parentsโwhatโs a guy to do?Alek Khederian was looking forward to a relaxing summer. But when his parents announce that heโll be attending summer school in order to bring up his grades, Alek is sure this experience will be just as hellish as his freshman year of high school. But he never couldโve predicted that heโd meet someone like Ethan.Ethan is everything Alek wishes he were: confident, free-spirited, and irreverent. When Ethan gets Alek to cut school and go to a Rufus Wainwright concert in New York Cityโs Central Park, Alek embarks on his first adventure outside the confines of his suburban New Jersey existence. He canโt believe a guy this cool wants to be his friend. And before long, it seems like Ethan wants to be more than friends. Alek has never thought about having a boyfriendโheโs barely ever had a girlfriendโbut maybe itโs time to think again.Michael Barakiva's One Man Guy is a romantic, moving, laugh-out-loud-funny story about what happens when one person cracks open your world and helps you see everythingโand, most of all, yourselfโlike you never have before.โA romantic comedy with Armenian flair . . . Donโt miss it.โ โE. Lockhart, author of We Were LiarsโA kind and generous book about the loneliness of a young boy trying to navigate between a chaotic Armenian family and a school of bullying cliques. Alek Khederian deals bravely and inspiringly with the perils of learning to love your family, to love someone else, and most of all, to love yourself.โ โEleanor Bergstein, novelist and screenwriter of the film Dirty DancingโHand this one to those whoโve already gone through Levithanโs Boy Meets Boy and Klugerโs My Most Excellent Year.โ โThe Bulletin