In the Key of Dale - Paperback
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Ages 14 and up.
In the Key of Dale - Paperback
$15.95
by Benjamin Lefebvre (Author)
Part comedy, part grief narrative, In the Key of Dale is a disarming coming-of-age novel about a queer teen music prodigy who discovers pieces of himself in places he never thought to look.
Sixteen-year-old Dale Cardigan is a loner who's managed to make himself completely invisible at his all-boys high school. He doesn't fit with his classmates (whom he gives nicknames in his head), his stepbrother (whom nobody at school knows he's related to), or even his mother (who never quite sees how gifted a musician Dale might be)--but they don't fit with him, either. And he's fine with that. To him, high school and home are stages to endure until his real life can finally begin. Somewhat against his will, he befriends his classmate Rusty, who gets a rare look at Dale's complex life outside school, but their friendship is made awkward when Dale is uncertain whether his growing attraction to Rusty is one-sided. Still, it's to Rusty that Dale turns when he stumbles upon a family secret that shakes everything he thought he knew. An epistolary novel written in the form of letters to his late father, In the Key of Dale is a beguiling, pitch-perfect book about growing up, fitting in, and finding a way out of grief and loneliness toward the melodic light of adulthood.Ages 14 and up.
Author Biography
Benjamin Lefebvre is the editor of several books, including The L.M. Montgomery Reader, a three-volume critical anthology that won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers, and an edition of Montgomery's rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted. In the Key of Dale is his first novel.
Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2022
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