When a gay teenage with green hair moves from New York City to Kansas you expect the gay part or even the green hair part to be the big deal. Neither of them are. The big deal is that Sprout is a talented writer, leaving with a drunk father, who has lost his mother to cancer, has a working friendship with an older English teacher, and attempts to find himself in the midst of all that surrounds him.
His secrets are in plain sight but the decisions he makes along the way are what shapes and molds him into who and what he is.
Imagine trying to find a boyfriend, having a secret fling with a jock who is now your best girlfriend's boyfriend and you have a recipe for success.
Add to that the voice of a young man who is an excellent writer and manages to use words and sentences in a way that entices the reader to continue.
A wonderfully told story of a young man's search for true identity.
Definitely belongs on high school shelves.
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