The Last Exit to Normal

Harmon, Michael

ISBN 10: 0375840982 / ISBN 13: 9780375840982

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Exit to Normal
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375840982
• ISBN 13: 9780375840982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Harmon is the author of Skate, “a remarkable first novel,” according to Kirkus Reviews. He lives in Spokane, Washington, where he is at work on his next novel for Knopf.