![]() Jo’s formally styled writing, studded with Whitman quotations, touches on life’s passions and on being bullied at school, and Kurl’s more casual missives discuss his family: his brother’s return from Afghanistan and his mercurial, controlling uncle. ![]() Assigned to one another as part of a weekly pen pal exchange at their high school-and despite their vastly differing interests-they develop a rapport via classroom mail that builds into frequent correspondence and, eventually, romance. Adam Kurlansky (Kurl) is a reserved former football star who quit the team suddenly under strange circumstances. High school student Jonathan “Little Jo” Hopkirk is a gay, bow tie–wearing Walt Whitman fan. ![]() ![]() Henstra’s return to YA ( Mad Miss Mimic) tackles gay contemporary teen life via epistolary format. ![]()
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