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The World of Normal Boys: A Novel

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-09-30
Summary: "THe World of Normal Boys - a novel about hope"

I first read "The World of Normal Boys" last year, and I liked it a lot. Upon re-reading it, I agree that it's kind of depressing, unsettling, but also realistic. Remember that this is set in the 1970s. How much did your average gay 13yo then know about Stonewall, for instance?

I can easily imagine a young 1970s boy who knows he attracted to boys, is consumed with guilt on multiple fronts, has virtually no positive role models, jerks off a lot, and gets slapped around by everybody. But does this make for a good novel? Well, I suppose that not every coming-of-age story has to be life-affirming and love-affirming. What Robin thinks, what he does, are wholly believable from a 13yo's point of view. At the same time, I don't think I'd want to be Robin, no matter what decade it is -- even if I *did* get to say "screw you" and ride off into the sunset at the end.

Robin has, or ends up having, an antagonistic relationship with almost everyone in his life. The only "nice people" are his guidance counselor, Mr. Cortez, and Vincent, the Greenwich Village trick who gives Robin bus fare for sex. But take the other characters: Robin's father is the personification of clueless fatherhood, Robin's mentoring mother has given over to drink, brother Jackson (until his demise) is a bullying brat, sister Ruby and grandmother Nana are ridiculously religious, Grandpa Leo was a drunk, uncle Stan is a dork, cousin Larry is a total prick, and both buds Todd Spicer and Scott Schatz turn out to be losers who, for unknown reasons, like to get their rocks off (indiscriminately) with other guys. Lest I forget Mr. Schatz, the drunken child abuser. So, Robin is awash in negativity. Even Mr. Cortez is clueless about why 13yo Robin has to ditch school.

I think the main shtick in this novel is not homosexuality or parents or friends, or 13yos. It's Jackson's injury. It's the granddaddy metaphor for dashed hopes. Robin's story is filled with dashed hopes. And at the end, when Robin takes the bull by the horns, says sayonara, and gets on that Black & Tan bus to NYC, the story is still about hope.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-02-20
Summary: ""normal""

Robin is 13, and his family life is the picture of mediocrity: New Jersey suburbs in the late 70s, boring high-school with its collection of jocks and nerds, and parents who are in different orbits. His mom is sensitive and cultured. Robin is her little pal. They escape to NYC often, and spend the day visiting museums. Robin's dad has a special affinity for the youngest son, Jackson, who is a little jock. The middle child, Ruby, falls through the cracks, like it often happens with middle children.

Robin's family life gets shattered when little Jackson falls from the slide in the playground and breaks his neck. Life as he knew it unravels. At the same time, Robin starts becoming aware of the fact that he is gay.

I love the sublety with which Robin's sexual awakening is described. Above all, this is a coming-of-age story. Robin crosses the line between childhood and adulthood in a very unsmooth way. The focus of the book is not his homosexuality, but the complexity of growing up when you are conflicted about your parents, about right and wrong, about doing the right thing. It is a novel of self-discovery. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2007-10-19
Summary: "Have read better"

Yes, it has a few hints of sex, if that's what you are looking for, but overall the book is SLOW. It seems pieced up, haphazardly and you can't really get over with the main character... or any character for that matter. The idea was good but it was so poorly constructed that I ended up crying for the trees butchered to make the paper for the book, and every single penny I wasted on this. It's not totally hateful... if you have a good imagination and can create a alternate story with the characters and the general circumstances.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-10-02
Summary: "Well Done!"

This book was very touching and like many of the reviews almost impossible to put down. I found myself one evening at 2 am finishing it up.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2007-08-29
Summary: "perhaps right for some but not for me"

If you want to know where all though guys in cookie-cutter gay ghettos in places like Chelsea or the Castro come from, read this book. Otherwise save your time. The book is reasonably well written and a good take on some of the inanities of growing up in contemporary suburbia in America, though this is far from original. I suppose one has to have a certain empathy or at least sympathy for its main character and his dilemmas of growing up gay in said suburbia, and his alienation from the general philistinism of that world, to engage with this novel. My reaction, however, was that he was rather self-absorbed and needed to get over himself. What was a bit more interesting is how this character suggests the sources of the above-mentioned refugees and their particular sensibilities (such as they are!) that crowd into blue-state cities on the coasts these days. But if you find them as generally uninteresting and cliched as some of us do you might not want to bother with "The World of Normal Boys".