kengr

When I asked about starting a GLBT club at a high school the other day, someone recommended The Geography Club by Brent Hartinger.

I picked up a copy today. Even the paperback was overpriced for the size, but that's pretty typical for "young adult" fiction. I got a new copy because the only used copy was more messed up than I wanted to deal with.

I finished it an hour or so back. It's way too real in places. If I didn't have the stories I was working on to channel that sort of emotion into, I think it'd have had me getting *way* more emotional than I like to.

But the kids in it are *real*. They're scared of being different, they're afraid of rejection. They do dumb things to try to fit in. And all the rest.

Even so, I recommend it. Because they get thru it. In spite of their screwups and the bad intentions of others, they manage to find the courage to do what they have to.

I was laughing hysterically in spots. And wanted to cry in others. And I'm going to be loaning my copy to a few people. Maybe even to a friend's teen daughter. though I'll have to loan it to her mom first. <g>