This book made my teenage life seem insignificant. The book is basically about Jack and the different problems he has to deal with through his teenage life. The major problem he deals with is his father's homosexuality. He struggles with the acceptance of this fact along with his friend Maggie. This is all happening while he's still struggling to deal with his parent's divorce and accepting his mother's new boyfriend. Jack is constantly looking for a father figure in the book, because he can't seem to accept his fathers sexuality preference completely, and he can't seem to accept his mother's new boyfriend.
The major issue in this book was his about Jack dealing with the normal problems a teenager has, then he finds out his father is a homosexual, which just seems to complicate things more. He has to learn to deal with this problem by himself. He comes to realize that this shouldn't be a "problem" he has to deal with. He can't change the way his father is, and he shouldn't try, he should accept that this is the way his father is happy. I think in the end of the book he realized this.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a read an interesting story, and something just fun to read, but not very inspirational or moving. It was interesting reading about how Jack handled growing up. This book would good for anyone who is having or had a hard time growing up. I think Jack would be ideal for the people that don't understand homosexuality, and can't accept it into our culture.
He also has to deal with accepting his mother's new boyfriend and his father's boyfriend as parental figures in his life. This is hard for him, mostly because he still has a lot of anger at his mother and father for getting a divorce. He also learns by going on a vacation with his best friend, Max, that Max's mother is getting beat by her husband. And that his friend Maggie's father is also gay. I think this helps him to realize that everyone has problems to deal with. Having Maggie there to go through the embarrassing moments in school, and the teasing, really helped him get through the cruelty of other kids in their school.
the whole homosexual issue, and it made the book interesting and worth
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