John wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him.
This man is his enemy, an abusive disciplinarian who seems to want to kill John and, in a horrible final confrontation, nearly succeeds..
And then there\'s his home: his father ran off years ago, so he\'s being raised by his mother, who works long hours, and by her boyfriend, whom John calls the man who is not and never will be my father.
It\'s true that no one can guess his hidden thoughts, which are hilarious, razor-sharp observations about lust, love, tubas, algebra, everything.
John (My father named me after a toilet!) wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him -- not in his miserable home, and certainly not at school.
Moving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, You Don\'t Know Me is a multilayered young adult novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent.
Although his hidden thoughts are hilarious, with razor-sharp observations about lust, love, algebra, and everything, John\'s home life involves an absent father, a mother who works long hours, and her boyfriend, who is abusive to John.
John wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him
