Sunday, May 3, 2020--San Antonio, TX
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels includes religious pomposity, community fears, efforts to enforce "community standards", school bullying, schools' tendency to punish the one who reacts rather than the one who instigates problems, maternal love, paternal difficulty showing affection, parents' pressures for children to be what they what they would prefer them to be, homophobia, etc., all built around the story of a young gay man who left home to escape all of this in the early 80s just as AIDS was spreading and returned home 8 years later to die. It is a well written book published just this year which received a grade of A- from Entertainment Weekly and a recommendation in TIME. I gave the book 4 stars out of 5.
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