A teenager learns to cope with the difficulties and sorrows of life over the course of a single year as his parents divorce, he discovers that his father is gay, and his best friend's "perfect" family is torn apart by domestic violence

Jack

LGBTQ+ Books

A.M. HOMES

Literature & Fiction

MacMillan Publishing Company

Music For Torching

Harpercollins

The Safety of Objects

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.

Penguin??Books

A collection of disturbing, surreal stories explores the murky underworld of the emotions, with tales of an abducted boy, a teenager who is seduced by his sister's doll, and a child kept alive by machines

United States

W.W.Norton

Days of Awe: Stories

"The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize that her favorite subject-history-is not exactly what her father taught her. In a story that is as much about the dynamics within a family as it is about the desire for those in power to remain in power, Homes presciently unpacks a dangerous rift in American identity, prompting a reconsideration of the definition of truth, freedom and democracy-and exploring the explosive consequences of what happens when the same words mean such different things to people living together under one roof. From the writer who is always "razor sharp and furiously good" (Zadie Smith), a darkly comic political parable braided with a Bildungsroman that takes us inside the heart of a divided country"--

Homes:The Unfolding

VIKING

Jack (Vintage Contemporaries (Pb))

Perfection Learning

This Book Will Save Your Life

BBC Audiobooks America

The surreal City of Angels is a unique amalgam of past and present, tradition and revolution, dreamscape and reality. Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has long served as an ever-shifting backdrop against which countless American anxieties and aspirations play out. New York-based novelist and short-story writer A. M. Homes distills the elusive, quixotic splendor of this most beguiling of great American cities. She checks us into the famed hotel Chateau Marmont and uses life at this iconic landmark as a multifaceted prism through which to view and experience Los Angeles culture, past and present. Built in the 1920s, the Chateau Marmont is where the famous and infamous have always come to stay— for a few days or months at a time—and sometimes, to die.

Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill

History

Americas

National Geographic

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