The Vast Fields of Ordinary
About this book
It's Dade Hamilton's last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a boyfriend who won't publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade's shining beacon of possibility, a horizon to keep him from floating away.
Then he meets the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Falling in real love finally lets Dade come out of the closet and, ironically, ignites a ruthless passion in Pablo. But just when true happiness has set in, tragedy shatters the dreamy curtain of summer, and Dade will use every ounce of strength he's gained to break from his past and start fresh with the future.
Subjects
- bildungsromans
- children's fiction
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- coming of age
- coming out (sexual orientation)
- dating (social customs)
- dating (social customs), fiction
- eighteen-year-old men
- family, fiction
- family life
- family problems
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- first person narratives
- gay teenagers
- high school graduates
- homosexuality
- homosexuality, fiction
- iowa, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- lgbt
- lgbt novel
- lgbtq
- lgbtq young adult
- lgbt youth fiction
- queer literature
- stonewall book awards
- summer
- young adult novel