num_pages: 229
description: It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he’s more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope—or his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. James’s sense of dislocation is exacerbated by his willfully self-absorbed parents, a disdainful sister, his Teutonically cryptic shrink, and an increasingly vague, D-list celebrity grandmother. Compounding matters is James’s growing infatuation with a handsome male colleague at the art gallery his mother owns, where James supposedly works at his summer job but where he actually plots his escape to the prairie.
language: English
title: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
titlecomplete: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
genres: LGBT, Gay, Coming Of Age, Teen, Mental Health, Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Queer, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 23668
places: New York City, New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Children's/Young Adult, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Ferro-Grumley Awards
publisher: Frances Foster