num_pages: 240
description: In Jack , A.M. Homes, author of the forthcoming novel The Unfolding, gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal—even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack’s father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he’s gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack’s struggle to redefine what “family” means, A. M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humor, charm, and resonance, the most convincing, funny, and insightful novel about adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye .
language: English
title: Jack
titlecomplete: Jack
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Queer, LGBT, Young Adult, Banned Books, Novels, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 1615
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Children's/Young Adult, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch
publisher: Vintage