Perfectly Good White Boy
Perfectly Good White Boy
Perfectly Good White Boy
Carrie Mesrobian
"You never know where we'll end up. There's so much possibility in life, you know?" Hallie said. Sean Norwhalt can read between the lines. He knows Hallie's just dumped him. He was a perfectly good summer boyfriend, but now she's off to college, and he's still got another year to go. Her pep talk about futures and "possibilities" isn't exactly comforting. Sean's pretty sure he's seen his future and its "possibilities," and they all look DISPOSABLE. Like the rental his family moved into when his dad left. Like all the unwanted filthy old clothes he stuffs into the rag baler at his thrift-store job. Like everything good he's ever known. The only hopeful possibilities in Sean's life are the Marine Corps, where no one expected he'd go, and Neecie Albertson, whom he never expected to care about. Carrie Mesrobian follows her critically acclaimed debut, Sex & Violence, with another powerful and wrenching portrait of a teenage boy on the precipice of the new American future.

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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • Mature Young Adult
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Sean, a senior in high school, hides a lot of secrets. Some of them include Hallie, a college girl; others include his secret application to the Marine Corps. But secrets can change a person, especially a person like Sean.

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