title: Private Lessons
author: Rose, Red
description: Matt is a New Yorker teenager, full of doubts and fears. He is a junior in high school. He does not like himself. He thinks that he is too skinny and too insignificant compared to the boys around him. His hairs are always ruffled and the brackets make him look awkward and clumsy in front of everybody else’s eyes. Matt doesn’t know himself yet, but he feels that he is different all the other boys that are his age. He is different in the way he dresses, in the way the thinks and in the way he perceives the world. He likes classic music while his classmates love hard rock. He also likes writing poems while his classmates buy porn magazines and play X-box. He feels a shocking and shameful attraction for boys.For all these reasons, Matt keeps himself at the margins. Loneliness seems to be his best ally. But his life is about to change because an unexpected, very special, person is about to enter his life. A person that will change forever the course of his young existence with his private lessons.