Books For Gay and Lesbian Youth
Teen Fiction By Title (with covers)
Teen Fiction By Title (text only)
The Year of Ice
Brian Malloy
It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a
high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers,
rock and roll, and-unbeknownst to anyone else-a boy in his class
with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. His mother Eileen died
two years earlier when her car plunged into the icy waters of the
Mississippi River, and since then Kevin's relationship with his
father Patrick has become increasingly distant. As lonely women
vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own
closely guarded secret: he had planned to abandon his family for
another woman. More disturbingly, his mother's death may well have
been a suicide, not an accident.
Complicating the family
dynamic is the constant meddling of Kevin's outspoken Aunt
Nora-who will never forgive Patrick for Eileen's death-along with
Patrick's inability to stay single for very long. His loyalties
divided between his father and his aunt, between his internal
reality and his public persona, Kevin is forced to reevaluate his
notions of family and love as painful truths emerge about both.
Published by St. Martin's Griffin.
