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“Aching for a good time.” Is this really an adult man talking about pictures of himself as a child? Or is it a creepy neighbor thinking about a boy who lives down the street?
Just a third grader, bottom lip chafed from obsessive licking, little fingernails bitten to the quick, aching for a good time.” Eight years old and looking for a little security, a little self-confidence - any self-confidence, really. Not exactly the kid from the Sears catalog but a kid all the same. On my back, a dirty brown coat with a fake-fur collar. Greasy bangs plastered to my forehead, faded Toughskins jeans riding halfway up my shins. A sad-eyed ferret of a kid, skinny and bewildered, slight olive complexion, dark rings under my eyes. “That’s me, little Mike Munoz, standing in the middle. Here are the disturbing passages I found in this book. And he invites all readers of his book to do the same. That is the extent to which Evison and his supporters want to take ownership of the lives, the sexuality, and the ambition of young men. The fanfiction is written in the first person, as that boy. The gay romance is not important to this book at all.īasically, the book reads like a neighbor who develops a fixation on a boy who lives down the street - and decides to write fanfiction about him. That statement is here.Įvison and his supporters want to say the book is a coming of age story and add an extra layer of LGBT romance to defend and cover up its actual attack on boys, on young men, on the freedom that kids should have while they grow up. Jonathan Evison, the author of “Lawn Boy,” posted a statement to the publisher’s web site, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. To sum up the news surrounding “Lawn Boy”: A mother in Leander, Texas, took her son to a school board meeting and read passages from the book out loud last September. Its pedophilic, exploitative and abusive elements go beyond the swear words and the sexual passages. The author of “Lawn Boy” and his supporters say parents who want the book removed from libraries have not read it, and do not put it in the right context.Īlright, I read the book.