Did I mention I got an autographed ARC at my conference? Reality Boy comes out tomorrow, October 22nd. You should go get it.A. S. King takes a damaged kid with a broken family and lays it bare in her raw and edgy way. The story is incredibly heart-breaking.
Gerald was the star of a reality TV nanny series, famous for pooping in inappropriate places. No one listened to him then and now, no one sees him as he really is. What makes this terrible story beautiful is Gerald’s awakening. When things get hard, he disappears to a fantasy world he calls Gersday (rhymes with daresday), where he eats strawberry ice-cream and Snow White is his guidance counselor. As he gets to know Hannah, a girl he works with at his afterschool concession stand job, he struggles with trying to make his first true friend, and perhaps girlfriend, and what that means if he truly opens up to someone. As he approaches his 17th birthday he realizes he has demands and needs to voice them if he is ever going to survive.
A powerful, beautiful novel.
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