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The Last Exit to Normal

ISBN: 0375840982

Title: The Last Exit to Normal

Author: Michael Harmon

KDL Description:

After acting up upon his father revealing that he is gay, seventeen-year-old Ben is moved to a small town in Montana to start over with his father and his new boyfriend, yet as he attempts to adjust to the nothingness of rural life, he meets his strange neighbor, Billy, who has a family secret Ben can’t wait to uncover.

Amazon Description:

It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad and Edward, The Boyfriend. As if it’s not painful enough living in a hick town with spiked hair, a skateboard habit, and two dads, he soon realizes something’s not quite right with Billy, the boy next door. He’s hiding a secret about his family, and Ben is determined to uncover it and set things right. In an authentic, unaffected, and mordantly funny voice, Michael Harmon tells the wrenching story of an uprooted and uncomfortable teenaged guy trying to fix the lives around him – while figuring out his own.