A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself, and his suicide changes everyone around him: his parents are devastated, his secret boyfriend’s girlfriend is relieved, his unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate is shattered, his English teacher wishes she could remember his name, the school guidance counselor feels guilty, and Max, the principal, is worried about how it will reflect on the very Catholic school. And then Max meets a drag queen named Crêpe Suzette. And everything changes. Winner of the 2012 W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2011.
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