At his new school, a boarding school for boys, Rafe enjoys the perks of being assumed straight (but not closeted), including being welcomed into the jock circle and being able to form close platonic bonds with his teammates without the barrier that forms from straight guys ‘tolerating’ gay ones. The novel follows Rafe, the openly gay teenage son of ridiculously liberal hippie parents, when he decides that he’s tired of all the baggage that comes with being openly gay. *I realize that this is a pretentious phrase worthy of Ben It is enjoyable, but it’s not quest-worthy. Because it took me so long to find, it eventually became the object of a quest and my anticipation for it resultantly increased exponentially.* When I finally found a copy, I was mostly disappointed. I read a lot of really positive blog reviews of Bill Konigsberg’s Openly Straight and kept an eye out for it for about a year.
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