Books For Gay and Lesbian Youth
Teen Fiction By Title (with covers)
Teen Fiction By Title (text only)
A Seahorse Year
Stacey D'Erasmo
In contemporary San Francisco, an extended family is
transformed by the emerging breakdown of a troubled adolescent
boy. The lives of Christopher's mother, Nan; her lover, Marina;
his gay father, Hal; and Hal's new love interest are pushed to the
edge by Christopher's strange behavior, by something new in him
that mystifies them all. When he runs away, far into the woods of
northern California, their assumptions about themselves and one
another are severely tested. They might not, they discover, be
quite as modern as they once thought. Even Christopher's gift to
Marina of three dried seahorses rattles unnervingly to announce a
time like no other.
This is a book about love at the very edge,
about the things people do out of love that have both redemptive
and disastrous consequences, often at the same time. It's about
the unexpected risks of intimacy. It shows how families shatter
and re-form under duress; it asks difficult questions that have
all the tough complexity of real life. Devastating truths are
revealed in the answers.
Published by Houghton Mifflin.
