You in?" Kristina knows the answer to this, but she asks it anyway. "We're going up to Sparky's before they close for the season. They say: I can't figure out why she hangs out with that weird neighbor girl. They say: I bet her and that Justin Lampley will have some damn pretty kids. When the townies talk about her, they say: You know that's her natural color? "It was gross," Kristina says, adjusting her ponytail by grabbing two sides and yanking on them to center it on her perfect head. "She actually posed for me hugging her tennis racquet." "I went with him to help," Kristina says. "I had to take some candid shots of the usual suspects: Football practice. Justin has his SLR digital camera around his neck like always, and Kristina is in a pair of yoga pants and an oversize Yale sweatshirt. When the two of them finally arrive, they walk through the door holding hands and giggling. Justin and Kristina have all kinds of stuff to do after school. And if I run out of submissions, I can always work on layout or advertising or just sit here and read a book. Justin and Kristina are ten minutes late. And though I've disagreed with the idea every day this week in humanities class, sometimes I think I know what he meant. Agent: Michael Bourret, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. Funny, provocative, and intelligent, King’s story celebrates love in all of its messy, modern complexity.
When several secrets become public, Astrid’s relationships are further strained, and she copes by silently sending love to the passengers of airplanes flying overhead (whose brief stories indicate they can sense Astrid’s questions and feel the love she unleashes) and carrying on imaginary conversations with Socrates.
I’m not going through this so I can lock myself in the one of them box”), and the community’s homophobia and aggressive rumor mill weigh heavily on her. Astrid isn’t comfortable labeling herself gay (“I’m not in this to be a member of some club.
High school senior Astrid Jones moved from New York City to Unity Valley, Pa., with her family years ago, but it still doesn’t feel like home. The philosophical searching, surprising spiritual guides, and powerful observations of contemporary life that characterize previous works by King (Everybody Sees the Ants) are in full evidence in a story that’s at once much more than a coming-out novel and one of the best coming-out novels in years.
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