04. Sprout, by Dale Peck
Have I mentioned that I adore LGBT novels?
Not only does this book have the greatest cover of all of these put together and then some (green hair, cool tales), but it’s also one of the coolest novels I’ve read in a long time. I stumbled across this via my Oyster app, which seems to be a trend, and the synopsis immediately had me downloading it. Sprout is an odd kid, which I like. He carries a dictionary around for one, and he’s got green hair for two. It’s a shockingly honest novel, and Peck does a fine job with interweaving Sprout’s mother’s death and his father alcoholism into a solid novel that still surrounds Sprout rather than his counterparts. It’s not clean-cut and it’s off-center, but Peck delivers a novel that makes you believe not everything is should be perfect.
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