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THE BOYS AND THE BEES
Joe Babcock
James loves Andy, but Andy loves Mark, a situation complicated further by the fact that this love triangle unfolds secretly in seventh grade Catholic School. No one at Saint Marks is aware that Andy, a budding 12-year-old comic book writer, is obsessed with Mark, the captain of the school’s basketball team. To Andy, falling in love with a straight boy seems as hopeless as his own unlikely quest to join the team, and become a star basketball player alongside the object of his affections. However, all is not lost. For Mark, too, is gay, even though his sexual self-awareness is clouded by his attraction to the class heartthrob, a girl whom all the boys lust after. All except James, the “school fag” and childhood pal Andy has tried to shake desperately ever since the boys reached adolescence and James’s more obvious sexuality began to threaten to open the closet door on Andy.
230 pages, £8.99 paperback |
