The chapters rotate among the viewpoints of the three boys, a narrative technique that provides a crystal picture of each character. And those are not nearly all the plots and subplots, all of which more or less get tied up by the end. One comes from a troubled family with an alcoholic father. Two of the boys have loving, concerned parents. Jason is going steady with Debra Kyle has a crush on Jason Nelson has a crush on Kyle. Kyle is the star of the swimming team who has known for a long time that he’s gay, but he’s still in the closet. Jason has a girlfriend (with whom he has sex), but he thinks a lot about male bodies and increasingly questions his sexuality. The lives of three suburban high school students become dramatically entangled in a manner familiar mostly to high-schoolers and soap-opera fans.
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