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    Kirkus Reviews (Print)
    March 1, 2014, Saturday


    ONE MAN GUY

    SECTION: FICTION


    Alek thought summer school would be the biggest bump in his
    summer...if only he'd known. Fourteen-year-old Aleksander Khederian is
    devastated when his parents break their promise to send him to tennis
    camp over the summer, but even worse is that they are forcing him to
    go to summer school just so that he can stay on the honors track.

    This, like traveling across town to a specific church or avoiding all
    things Turkish, is just part of being an Armenian-descended American.
    When his best friend, Becky, surprises Alek with an unwanted,
    passionate kiss and he reacts badly, he knows the summer is going to
    be lonely and awful. Then Ethan, a cool, skateboarding junior also in
    summer school, "kidnaps" Alek for a day trip by train to a Rufus
    Wainwright concert in New York City. Ethan, who's out to his skater
    friends, opens up a whole new world for Alek, and their friendship
    becomes a relationship. How will his traditionally minded family
    handle this? Alek is pretty sure it will be awful. Barakiva's debut is
    well-wrought and realistic within its Northeast context, and it's
    entertaining without sliding into easy gags or melodrama. Despite a
    too-neat-and-happy ending, it deftly draws strong parallels between
    homosexuality and ethnicity that will resonate with audiences. East
    Coast teens will see themselves; Midwesterners will feel a little
    envy. (Fiction. 12-16)

    Publication Date: 2014-05-27
    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Stage: Children's
    ISBN: 978-0-374-35645-3
    Price: $17.99
    Author: Barakiva, Michael



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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