My Side of the Story: A Novel - Softcover

Davies, Will

3.5

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9781596912946: My Side of the Story: A Novel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596912944 ISBN 13: 9781596912946

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2007

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Jarold, aka, Jazz, is a typical sixteen year old boy. He lives at home with his two remarkably un-divorced parents, his holier-than-thou sister, and his overbearing grandmother. It's a life straight out of a TV show. Or so it seems...

The truth is that Jazz's life is anything but picture perfect. He's seeing a shrink because his mom and dad found out he's gay; his schoolmates torment him every day; and he keeps bumping into his high school teacher at a local gay bar. To make matters worse, his best friend, Al, keeps pulling him into trouble. Jazz knows he has to keep everything together, at least through finals, so he can get away from this life once and for all. But, in his haste to leave everything behind, he comes to find out that the only thing he can't escape is himself.

Witty, sardonic, and incredibly funny, My Side of the Story is the perfectly rendered portrait of a precocious, troubled teenager faced with the awkward process of growing up and coming out.

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About the Author:

Will Davis was born in 1980 and lives in London. This is his first novel.

From Booklist:

The best thing about British author Davis' first novel is the chatty, self-deprecating, ultraironic voice he has created for his 16-year-old gay narrator, whose full name is (shudder) Jarold. "But," J. tells readers in one of many asides, "everyone calls me Jaz, which is a damn sight cooler I think you'll agree." Poor Jaz: all he wants is a little fun at the local gay pub, where he hangs with his best friend Al (short for Alice), but the two kids keep encountering their sobersided teacher Mr. Fallows and--in an effort to get him off their backs--launch a campaign they call "Finding a fellah for Fallows." But there are complications: Jaz inadvertently outs himself at school, his grandma has a stroke, his parents' marriage starts to disintegrate, and the chief object of his affection, an older man (he's 22), refuses to be involved with a teenager. These customary coming-of-age elements are saved from staleness by the freshness, humor, and honesty of Jaz's always-engaging voice. Michael Cart
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