Golden boy

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"The Walker family is good at keeping secrets from the world. They are even better at keeping them from each other. Max Walker is a golden boy. Attractive, intelligent, and athletic, he's the perfect son, the perfect friend, and the perfect crush for the girls in his school. He's even really nice to his little brother. Karen, Max's mother, is a highly successful criminal lawyer, determined to maintain the fac̦ade of effortless excellence she has constructed through the years. Now that the boys are getting older, now that she won't have as much control, she worries that the fac̦ade might soon begin to crumble. Adding to the tension, her husband, Steve, has chosen this moment to stand for election to Parliament. The spotlight of the media is about to encircle their lives. The Walkers are hiding something, you see. Max is special. Max is different. Max is intersex. When an enigmatic childhood friend named Hunter steps out of his past and abuses his trust in the worst possible way, Max is forced to consider the nature of his well-kept secret. Why won't his parents talk about it? What else are they hiding from Max about his condition and from each other? The deeper Max goes, the more questions emerge about where it all leaves him and what his future holds, especially now that he's starting to fall head over heels for someone for the first time in his life. Will his friends accept him if he is no longer the Golden Boy? Will anyone ever want him--desire him--once they know? And the biggest one of all, the question he has to look inside himself to answer: Who is Max Walker, really?"--Jacket.

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trans-positive submitted by ginarae3 on August 25, 2017, 7:33pm This book was not what I expected, and I loved it. Very well written, different, and factual. I learned a lot, and shed many tears. Some of them were happy tears.

very good submitted by KOH on August 28, 2017, 8:08pm worth the read!

Almost okay submitted by mrajraspn08 on November 19, 2017, 12:35pm I was extremely interested in this premise. And for the first two-thirds, I loved it. I could not put it down. It is completely different from anything else I have read, and I couldn't get enough of it. Then it reached a crossroads, and the author took it down a path that did a complete disservice to the story and the character. It infuriated me so much that I actually rewrote it, just to see how it should have gone. It came so close to being one of the best books out there, and a really good depiction of a complicated gender issue. But then it fell flat on its face. I hesitate to recommend it or not because of these complications, but in the end, I think that last third is so bad, it doesn't justify the rest of the good.