Michael Barakiva
Hardcover | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 3.88 | 11437 Users | 1046 Reviews
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| Original Title: | One Man Guy |
| ISBN: | 0374356459 (ISBN13: 9780374356453) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/onemanguy/MichaelBarakiva |
| Series: | One Man Guy #1 |
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A heartfelt, laugh-out-loud-funny story of romance, family, and self-discovery.Alek Khederian should have guessed something was wrong when his parents took him to a restaurant. Everyone knows that Armenians never eat out. Between bouts of interrogating the waitress and criticizing the menu, Alek’s parents announce that he’ll be attending summer school in order to bring up his grades. Alek is sure this experience will be the perfect hellish end to his hellish freshman year of high school. He never could’ve predicted that he’d meet someone like Ethan.
Ethan is everything Alek wishes he were: confident, free-spirited, and irreverent. He can’t believe a guy this cool wants to be his friend. And before long, it seems like Ethan wants to be more than friends. Alek has never thought about having a boyfriend—he’s barely ever had a girlfriend—but maybe it’s time to think again.
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| Title | : | One Man Guy (One Man Guy #1) |
| Author | : | Michael Barakiva |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Categories | : | LGBT. Young Adult. Romance. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 11437 Users | 1046 ReviewsJudgment About Books One Man Guy (One Man Guy #1)
I came for the gay relationship, but stayed for the Armenian culture.I can tell that the subject matter is very personal to the author, but I'm disappointed. I'm always hesitant to read YA and this really reinforced my misgivings.POSITIVE: awesome Armenian culture and food talk, the real meat of the story in my opinion best friend is a cool girlmost exciting part is when the family comes home early and walks in on themNEGATIVE:while the main character had a problem w/ the slur faggot he had noThis was a fast cute YA read. (I imagine that despite not having a name ending in "-ian" the author is Armenian himself - the little digs at Armenian culture sound like inside jokes. The kind of thing that's funny when coming from someone to whom they also apply.)This book is about Alek, a 14-year-old boy in an Armenian-American family. He's the second generation born in the US, but Armenian culture and history is still very pervasive in his home life. His mother in particular is determined to
Library- overdrive Young Adult - Audiobook...narrated by Michael Chernus ... who is terrific!!! Light- laugh-out-loud- funny scenes - heartwarming - adorable! The very beginning of this novel takes place in a restaurant. The scene is hilarious!!!I was dying laughing. I started to feel a little sorry for the sweet server though. The Kherderian family are Armenian living in New Jersey. Just about everything is wrong in America from the parents of view. ( all in fun storytelling spirit). The
Absolutely amazing! This is a beautiful young adult story, and I mean YOUNG adult! Alek, the MC, is 14! so... if you are not into it, DON'T read it, you will end up not liking it and giving it a few stars less than it deserv, BUT you will also be missing out on an amazing read!Having said that, Alek is intelligent and very mature for his age that I totally did not feel like I was reading a 14 year old thoughts.This is Alek's story, and I love the way the author cleverly let us to really know him
Because anyone who thinks there is something wrong with being gay is like those people you read about in History who believed in segregation. But I bet you Ethan cares, because it sounds to me like he has a crush on you, too. Chapter 9, page 107Imagine for a moment that youre a fourteen-year-old boy. Your parents just told you that you will be doing summer school, not because you failed, but because your grades could be better. Your parents, who has the combined obsessive tenacity of Rain Man
I absolutely loved One Man Guy! It was swoony and sweet, but there was an underlying complexity of family issues and culture bias that just moves you. The Author Writes: If you are from the suburbs of New Jersey, or love New York City, the music of Rufus Wainwright, falling in love, summer, tennis, or even a single Armenian, I think you will enjoy my book.I find that I don't fall into most of that category, I have never met an Armenian (but now I want to), don't really like tennis (unless
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