Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan
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Author: David LevithanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-10
ISBN: 0375832998
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Book Review: "The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night"
Summary: 5 Stars
Is there a homosexual alive who wouldn't trade in their grammar, middle, and high school experience for Paul's? I imagine there is, but I think most would rather have Paul's. He lives in a city that is so remarkably socially liberal that a kindergarten teacher writes on Paul's report card, "Paul is definitely gay and has a very good sense of self". Seeing that, Paul asks his parents about it, and instead of the parents falling apart crying, denouncing their child as an abomination, or immediately shipping him off to an all boy's school (I just LOVE that solution - if parents knew what goes on in those schools...anyway...), Paul's mother announces to her husband that their son has learned a new word. And that's that.
Straight and gay aren't polarizing terms; they're merely identifiers, much like colors: that mug is yellow, and the sky is blue. There aren't gay clubs because they aren't necessary. People aren't afraid to be who they are.
I think, ultimately, that's the appeal of this book. Granted, the writing is solid, the characters very believable and entertaining (Infinite Darlene, the homecoming queen *and* the star quarterback deserves a book of her own), but when you get right down to it, this world, this Utopia creates not only a desire in those who read it to have lived it, but a desire in those who read it to make this community a reality someday. Thousands of teen suicides every year would simply disappear. Nobody would have to pretend to like girls or boys to hide their secrets. It's a wonderful world, as Levithan himself says.
Which reminds me - one thing that Levithan did throughout the book that was entertaining was that he used lyrics of songs in his sentences. I finished the book last week, didn't make notes, so the only one I recall is at the very end of the book, where Levithan craftily weaves his ending into the lyrics of What a Wonderful World. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was a bit misty-eyed. This world that Paul lives in is one I'd give my right hand to live in.
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