It Helps with the Blues

Review\n"A raw look into the tumultuous world of teenage love and loss ... a tour de force of emotions and self-discovery."
- Kevin Craig, The Camino Club\n"Full-bodied immersion in teenage conversation about friendship, desire, and aspiration. It Helps with the Blues captures a young man's contradictory attitudes: what he wants, what he believes he knows, and how he senses he's crossing a threshold into the rest of his life. At seventeen, eighteen, one could fall in love, fall into the bottle, even fall out of life. Cebulski weaves a frank and tender gay story."
- Tucker Lieberman, author of Bad Fire\nJules leaves. Gabriel rages.
Estelle changes. Joshua hides.\nIn the aftermath of a classmate's suicide, a boy embroils himself in a community of Midwestern teens, each doing what they can to cope as they stumble—together and apart—toward a life worth living.