Overview
Summer school, a cute boy, and overbearing Armenian parentsāwhatās a guy to do?
Alek Khederian was looking forward to a relaxing summer. But when his parents announce that heāll be attending summer school in order to bring up his grades, Alek is sure this experience will be just as hellish as his freshman year of high school. But he never couldāve predicted that heād meet someone like Ethan.
Ethan is everything Alek wishes he were: confident, free-spirited, and irreverent. When Ethan gets Alek to cut school and go to a Rufus Wainwright concert in New York Cityās Central Park, Alek embarks on his first adventure outside the confines of his suburban New Jersey existence. He canāt believe a guy this cool wants to be his friend. And before long, it seems like Ethan wants to be more than friends. Alek has never thought about having a boyfriendāheās barely ever had a girlfriendābut maybe itās time to think again.
Michael Barakiva's One Man Guy is a romantic, moving, laugh-out-loud-funny story about what happens when one person cracks open your world and helps you see everythingāand, most of all, yourselfālike you never have before.
āA romantic comedy with Armenian flair . . . Donāt miss it.ā āE. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars
āA kind and generous book about the loneliness of a young boy trying to navigate between a chaotic Armenian family and a school of bullying cliques. Alek Khederian deals bravely and inspiringly with the perils of learning to love your family, to love someone else, and most of all, to love yourself.ā āEleanor Bergstein, novelist and screenwriter of the film Dirty Dancing
āHand this one to those whoāve already gone through Levithanās Boy Meets Boy and Klugerās My Most Excellent Year.ā āThe Bulletin
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