![]() ![]() ![]() Hes the right kind of son for his father, a dark-horse candidate reminiscent of Barak Obama. Dre is a free spirit, openly gay, and deeply into Dungeons & Dragons. These boys are a study in contrasts, however, the only congruity being their attractiveness and charm. Forced to spend time together during a security blip in the course of a public event, the two boys, so different from each other, find that they actually share a lotmostly the annoyance of being dragged into their parents presidential aspirations during their senior years in high school. The story focuses on the reluctant meeting of Andre (Dre) Rosario, the seventeen-year-old son of the nations first Mexican-American presidential candidate, and Dean Arnault, the seventeen-year-old son of the conservative Republican woman running against him. Hutchinson channels the voice of teen angst with both great humor and razor edge that sometimes hurts. Shaun Hutchinsons books have all hit me in the heart, and have taken this sixty-five-year-old back to the early 1970s, when he was a teenager struggling with his identity. ![]() ![]() In the wake of the post-election bizarroworld in late 2020, and particularly after the events of Epiphany 2021 (January 6), this book was a balm to my soul. ![]()
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