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Jarold, aka, Jazz, is a typical sixteen year old boy. He lives at home with his two remarkably un-divorced parents, his holier-than-thou sister, and his overbearing grandmother. It’s a life straight out of a TV show. Or so it seems...
The truth is that Jazz’s life is anything but picture perfect. He’s seeing a shrink because his mom and dad found out he’s gay; his schoolmates torment him every day; and he keeps bumping into his high school teacher at a local gay bar. To make matters worse, his best friend, Al, keeps pulling him into trouble. Jazz knows he has to keep everything together, at least through finals, so he can get away from this life once and for all. But, in his haste to leave everything behind, he comes to find out that the only thing he can’t escape is himself.
Witty, sardonic, and incredibly funny, My Side of the Story is the perfectly rendered portrait of a precocious, troubled teenager faced with the awkward process of growing up and coming out.
The truth is that Jazz’s life is anything but picture perfect. He’s seeing a shrink because his mom and dad found out he’s gay; his schoolmates torment him every day; and he keeps bumping into his high school teacher at a local gay bar. To make matters worse, his best friend, Al, keeps pulling him into trouble. Jazz knows he has to keep everything together, at least through finals, so he can get away from this life once and for all. But, in his haste to leave everything behind, he comes to find out that the only thing he can’t escape is himself.
Witty, sardonic, and incredibly funny, My Side of the Story is the perfectly rendered portrait of a precocious, troubled teenager faced with the awkward process of growing up and coming out.
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'Made me cry with laughter until I had to stop reading it in public'
-- Victoria Hislop
`A fresh and funny coming-of-age story, this will appeal to the misunderstood teenager lurking within us all' -- Marie Claire
`This is a fresh and funny novel about growing up gay, with absolutely no help from a mad family. Davis gives his narrator a wonderfully wry outlook. Be warned - you are entering the mind of a teenager' -- The Times
`Will Davis is a witty writer who effortlessly conjures up the frenetic detail of Jaz's sixteen-year-old world. The way the novel zigzags around in time perfectly mirrors its protagonist's dislocated life' -- Independent on Sunday
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-- Victoria Hislop
`A fresh and funny coming-of-age story, this will appeal to the misunderstood teenager lurking within us all' -- Marie Claire
`This is a fresh and funny novel about growing up gay, with absolutely no help from a mad family. Davis gives his narrator a wonderfully wry outlook. Be warned - you are entering the mind of a teenager' -- The Times
`Will Davis is a witty writer who effortlessly conjures up the frenetic detail of Jaz's sixteen-year-old world. The way the novel zigzags around in time perfectly mirrors its protagonist's dislocated life' -- Independent on Sunday
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1596912944
- ISBN 13 9781596912946
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages243
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My Side of the Story: A Novel
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