Synopsis
Can a cool reputation really deliver on promises of happiness?
Nick's got problems. He's a social outcast who dreams of being popular, he's an easy target for bullies, and he doesn't understand why he's just not attracted to girls. So, after a series of misunderstandings label him a troublemaker on his first day of high school, he's really stoked to have Jesse Gaston and his gang take him in.
Jesse starts a PR campaign around campus to give Nick a new image, and the shy loser soon finds himself transformed into an antiestablishment hero. While Nick would rather explore his growing attraction to Bobby Warren, he's forced to fend off would-be girlfriends and struggles with the demands of acting cool. And things at home are spinning out of control as the Vietnam War's destructive impact threatens to change his life forever.
Nick's story is both humorous and haunting-a journey of ridiculous misadventures, unexpected psychedelic explorations, and tragic turns of fate. Can a world still reeling from the sexual revolution and the illicit pleasures of marijuana and underage drinking accept two boys in love? Can Nick and Bobby's relationship survive a hostile time when acid rock rules, status is everything, and being gay is the last taboo?
Seasons of Chadham High explores the evolving experience of gay teenagers in different eras--from the psychedelic sixties, through the me generation seventies and eighties, to the nihilistic nineties and beyond.
About the Author
Huston Piner always wanted to be a writer but realized from anearly age that learning to read would have to take precedence. Avoracious reader, he loves nothing more than a well-told story, a glassof red, and soft and music playing in the background. His writings focus on ordinary gay teenagers and young adults struggling with theirorientation in the face of cultural prejudice and the evolving influence of LGBTQA+ rights on society.
His first book My Life as a Myth was a 2013 Rainbow Awards finalist. Conjoined at the Soul won the 2015 Divine Magazine Award in the LGBT New Adult/Young Adult category. His first New Adult novel Light in Endless Darkness was also published in 2015.
In 2017, Huston signed with NineStar Press. A thoroughly revised and unabridged edition of My Life as a Myth was published on August 28th as the first installment of the Seasons of Chadham High series, and was nominated for 2017 Stonewall Book Award for Children'sand Young Adult Literature. The newly revised edition of Conjoined at the Soul was published February 12, 2018, and The Breaths We Take was released on November 19th.
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