![]() ![]() In an authentic, unaffected, and mordantly funny voice, Michael Harmon tells the wrenching story of an uprooted and uncomfortable teenaged guy trying to fix the lives around him-while figuring out his own. He's hiding a secret about his family, and Ben is determined to uncover it and set things right. ![]() He lovingly pets a cat, then goes out and shoots it. Ben, however, notices there’s something not quite right about Billy. ![]() ![]() Miss Mae, Ben’s grisly Grandma, serves as a fantastic, country-fried foil to Ben’s snarky cynicism. He spent a lot of high school beating the shit out of Edward, and now apologizes for this by demanding they all stay away from his eleven-year-old son, Billy, lest they make him into a homo. Readers will love watching this hilarious teen grapple with his new digs, delinquent tendencies and irrepressible sarcasm. As if it's not painful enough living in a hick town with spiked hair, a skateboard habit, and two dads, he soon realizes something's not quite right with Billy, the boy next door. Spiky-haired skater Ben Campbell moves with his gay dads to rural Montana, where he finds animal carcasses, trucks, a cute farm girl and a troubled kid next door. Its true: After 17-year-old Bens father announces hes gay and the family. But he never thinks he'll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad and Edward, The Boyfriend. Read The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon available from Rakuten Kobo. It's true: After 17-year-old Ben's father announces he's gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. ![]()
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