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Growing up "different" in the rural Ozarks - a place that made the fellas from Deliverance look like the Jonas Brothers - wasn't easy for a little boy like Wade Rouse, a Winnie-the-Pooh children's clothing model with a love of pageants, pie and pretty ascots.
While country schoolmates sported crew cuts and dreamed of being farmers, Wade sported a feathered 'do and dreamed of being Robbie Benson. Wade's whacky family didn't make growing up any easier: Wade's father, an extroverted engineer, insisted on calling everyone "honey" -even male gas station attendants-and his mother, a chatty nurse, never stopped talking.
And Wade's All-American older brother excelled at rural activities, like hunting and fishing, that Wade hated. Every summer, Wade's eccentric kin packed their clothes in garbage bags and drove to their log cabin on Sugar Creek in the Ozarks. And it was amidst this simple beauty that Wade found refuge from his everyday struggle to fit in-until a sudden, terrible accident took his brother's life and changed everything. Afraid to lose the love of his remaining family, Wade chose to bury not only his brother but also his identity and burgeoning sexuality, and forget them for a very long time.
While country schoolmates sported crew cuts and dreamed of being farmers, Wade sported a feathered 'do and dreamed of being Robbie Benson. Wade's whacky family didn't make growing up any easier: Wade's father, an extroverted engineer, insisted on calling everyone "honey" -even male gas station attendants-and his mother, a chatty nurse, never stopped talking.
And Wade's All-American older brother excelled at rural activities, like hunting and fishing, that Wade hated. Every summer, Wade's eccentric kin packed their clothes in garbage bags and drove to their log cabin on Sugar Creek in the Ozarks. And it was amidst this simple beauty that Wade found refuge from his everyday struggle to fit in-until a sudden, terrible accident took his brother's life and changed everything. Afraid to lose the love of his remaining family, Wade chose to bury not only his brother but also his identity and burgeoning sexuality, and forget them for a very long time.
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A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us...America s Boy proves Rouse to be an original writer...impressive...a real tearjerker. --The Washington Post
Rouse's affectionate, episodic evocation of his loving, extended, and slightly eccentric family is engaging. --Booklist
Rouse writes tenderly, hilariously, and without bitterness...This is Rouse's first book, and it's a winner. Highly recommended. --Library Journal
Rouse's affectionate, episodic evocation of his loving, extended, and slightly eccentric family is engaging. --Booklist
Rouse writes tenderly, hilariously, and without bitterness...This is Rouse's first book, and it's a winner. Highly recommended. --Library Journal
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- PublisherMagnus Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1936833301
- ISBN 13 9781936833306
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages300
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