| Title: |
What I Know Now |
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| Author: |
Rodger Larson |
| Published by: |
Henry Holt, 1997 |
| ISBN: |
0-8050-4869-3 [hardcover, 262 pages] |
Dave Ryan's mother has hired Gene Tole
to build a garden at the old home she is moving back to, away from her
failed marriage. A handsome, thoughtful man, Gene seems to be the father
Dave's own silent, brooding dad could never be. "Sometimes when you
build a garden," Gene explains, "you build a gardener, too."
But a garden contains both beauty and secrets.
As Dave's feelings for Gene grow, he peers around the
edges of his own life, seeing his brother, father, and mother in new ways.
What I Know Now is a beautifully written evocation of a boy's dawning
sexuality that shows how his emerging feelings help him to become a young
man.
