Post by Dabeagle on Apr 22, 2019 16:05:59 GMT -5
I was given a gift card to Barnes & Noble recently, so I have a few books I've blasted through to review. One reason I picked this one up was the cover, which shows a brown skinned male holding the hand of a Caucasian male, and the unique thing is the style reminds me of a fifties advertisement.
The story is set in Arizona and the two characters, Max (Mexican/Irish) and Jordan are two guys from opposite ends of the spectrum. Max has been given ideas of what a 'man' is, plays baseball and hangs out with his two best straight buddies, who know he is gay. It doesn't seem to matter to them, they all act quite normal - for them. Jordan is a bit more stereotypical - skinny, unathletic, characterized by Max as being kind of 'emo' and he's sensitively artistic. They meet when Jordan and his mother are trying to press the family food truck back into service. The truck was run by JOrdan's father, but has sat decaying since he passed away. Max is running from a bad app hookup and runs right into a job working with Jordan on the food truck.
The book is told in alternating perspectives and contains some great reading about defining masculinity, growing up to deal with parents as something other than just authority figures. I highly recommend this book.