They slowly bond over poetry and art and end up falling for one another. It wasn’t insta-love but there was normal insta-attraction between the two boys.
I think for it being set during a single summer, it went at a good pace. They are suffering alone until they begin working together on Jordan’s father’s old food truck. This is a story about two boys who are dealing with their own traumas. This book is compared to Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe a lot and I can see why. Although I will say that the boy who I think is Jordan is NOT how I imagined him at all so that was a little sad. It’s the first thing that caught my eye when I saw this book. Over the course of one summer, two boys will have to face their biggest fears and decide what they’re willing to risk - to get the thing they want the most.
And top it off with a touch of undeniable chemistry between utter opposites. Place it all in Mesa, Arizona, in June, where the temp regularly hits 114. Add in prickly pears, cloud eggs, and a murky idea of what’s considered locally sourced and organic. Throw in a rickety, 1980s-era food truck called Coq Au Vinny. And a secret: A spiraling out of control mother, and the knowledge that he’s the only one who can keep the family from falling apart. Right, who probably won’t like him anyway. And a secret: An encounter with an older kid that makes it hard to breathe, one that he doesn’t want to think about, ever. Gay and not a big deal, not to him, not to his mom, not to his buddies.
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