![]() Jude wants desperately to be saved-to believe with the fervor of the charismatic Reverend Amos King, whose sermons are filled with brimstone and righteousness. For those who don’t, there’s ostracism in this life and certain damnation in the next. For those who fit into the local church’s narrow confines, there’s support and fellowship. Jude Connor’s rural Idaho hometown is a place of strong values and high expectations. ![]() And as the life he’s known, and the future he envisioned, slips further away each day, he realizes he can either lose his direction entirely, or forge a new-and perhaps even better-path. Helping Kay find her way begins changing Simon, too, presenting different perspectives and revealing a strength that’s gone untapped until now. And Simon’s school project-coaching a young student for the national Spelling Bee-hits a complication when eleven-year-old Toby makes a confession: there’s a girl trapped inside his body, and her name is Kay. His stepsister is overindulged by her father and struggling with Asperger syndrome. ![]() ![]() But all of Simon’s certainties come crashing down when his mother remarries and drags him to Boston with her.įurious and unforgiving, Simon finds plenty to resent in America. There’s his school, his boyfriend, his cat, and especially Oxford University, which Simon plans to attend just as his beloved late father planned. Everything sixteen-year-old Simon Fitzroy-Hunt loves in is in England. ![]()
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