In this tender-hearted debut, set against the tumultuous backdrop of life in 1973, when homosexuality is still considered a mental illness, two boys defy all the odds and fall in love.
For the first time in his life, he may finally feel free enough to love and accept himself as he is..
Web is a kind of escape Jonathan has never known.
Web is the first person in the real world to see Jonathan completely and think he\'s perfect.
But he\'s drawn to Web anyway.
Jonathan wants nothing more than to be fixed once and for all.
Web is everything Jonathan wishes he could be: fearless, fearsome and, most importantly, not ashamed of being gay.
Jonathan doesn\'t want to like brooding Web, who has secrets all his own.
But before that can happen, Web stumbles into his life.
When he completes his treatments, he will be normal--at least he hopes.
In his alternate reality, Jonathan can be anything: a superhero, an astronaut, Ziggy Stardust, himself, or completely normal and not a boy who likes other boys.
To cope, Jonathan escapes to the safe haven of his imagination, where his hero David Bowie\'s Ziggy Stardust and dead relatives, including his mother, guide him through the rough terrain of his life.
In the midst of these trying times is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid, who aside from an alcoholic father and his sympathetic neighbor and friend Starla, is completely alone.
And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness.
The Vietnam War is still raging.
The Watergate hearings are in full swing.
Now in paperback.
The year is 1973.
In this tender-hearted debut, set against the tumultuous backdrop of life in 1973, when homosexuality is still considered a mental illness, two boys defy all the odds and fall in love
