This Boy - by Lauren Myracle (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A middle-class white kid navigates friendship, love, loss, addiction, and recovery.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Lauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage boy's coming-of-age.</b> <p/>Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and "wins" at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he's given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe -- oh god, please -- he's beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a sauced-out, rap-loving beta lobster suits Paul fine, and if life ever gets him down? Smoke a little weed, crunch a few pills . . . it's all good. <p/>But in the treacherous currents of teenage culture, it's easy to get pulled under. With perfect frankness, Lauren Myracle lays bare the life of one boy as he navigates friendship, love, loss, and addiction. It's life at its most ordinary and most unforgettable.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Myracle's depiction of Paul, his deep friendship with Roby, his relationship with his mom, and his first love with Natalia (a strong and multidimensional young woman) will snag readers, both reluctant and voracious, as they root for each of them to make it through the difficult realities of life, high school, and love.<br>--School Library Journal <p/>Through well-crafted dialogue and prose, the narrative highlights the ordinary, everyday moments and conversations that take up Paul's life. Paul's intimate first-person narration holds nothing back...A gritty and powerful story.<br>--Kirkus Reviews <p/>Divided into four sections, each representing one high-school year, this coming-of-age novel chronicles teenage Paul Walden's progression from naive freshman to senior navigating crisis and addiction...Myracle (<i>Under the Moon</i>) gives a frank depiction of Paul's grief, rapid physical decline, and arduous journey to recovery that casts a new light on Paul's previously carefree adolescence, offering a universality to the cautionary tale.<br>--Publishers Weekly <p/>Myracle does a superbly vivid job of handling Paul's friendship with Roby, his love for Natalia, and his later addiction. More than a simple cautionary story, this is a deeply felt, highly empathetic exercise in survival and a celebration of friendship.<br>--Booklist <p/><i>This Boy</i> is at once universal and molecular, tender and brutal; a graceful, engaging four-year journey through friendship, love, and life that will rough you up with honesty while quietly etching its characters deeper and deeper into your heart. Lauren Myracle has done it again.<br>--Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle and Rabbit & Robot <p/>This is Lauren Myracle at her best! No punches pulled. A funny, true, rugged story about love and family and jealousy and <i>chance: </i>the chaotic mess that is teenage life. Paul, Roby, and Natalia could be -- <i>would be </i>-- your friends, and just like your friends, they soar with you and they break your heart.<br>--Chris Crutcher, author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Losers Bracket<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Lauren Myracle </b>is the author of numerous novels for middle-grade and young adult readers, including the Internet Girls series <i>(ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r; </i>and <i>yolo)</i>, the Winnie Years series, the Wishing Day trilogy, and others. She lives with her family in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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