Title: The Vast Fields of Ordinary
First published: 2009
Description: It's Dade Hamilton's last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a boyfriend who won't publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade's shining beacon of possibility, a horizon to keep him from floating away.

Then he meets the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Falling in real love finally lets Dade come out of the closet and, ironically, ignites a ruthless passion in Pablo. But just when true happiness has set in, tragedy shatters the dreamy curtain of summer, and Dade will use every ounce of strength he's gained to break from his past and start fresh with the future.
Subjects: Fiction, Coming of age, Homosexuality, Dating (Social customs), Family problems, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Juvenile Fiction, First person narratives, Gay teenagers, Summer, High school graduates, Bildungsromans, Eighteen-year-old men, LGBT, LGBTQ, Queer Literature, LGBT Youth Fiction, LGBT Novel, young adult novel, LGBTQ young adult, Stonewall Book Awards, Fiction, coming of age, Dating (social customs), fiction, Iowa, fiction, Children's fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, Family, fiction, Juvenile fiction, collection:mike_morgan_larry_romans_childrens_young_adult_literature_award=winner
Places: Iowa
LC classification: PZ7.B915985 Vas 2009