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SUMMARY:Visiting Authors Series: Alex Sanchez &#8211\\; RAINBOW BOYS 25th
  Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event\\, taking place in person at Writers &
 amp\\; Books and online via Zoom. All registrants will receive a Zoom lin
 k in the registration confirmation email that is automatically sent after
  checkout. The author will be in conversation with author Linda Sue Park.
 \\nJoin us for the 25th anniversary celebration of Alex Sanchez’s debut
  novel Rainbow Boys\\, a NY Times “Best YA Book of All Time.” Sanche
 z will read briefly from the book and then be in conversation with award-
 winning author and friend\\, Linda Sue Park. Our indie bookstore\\, Amper
 sand Books\\, will sell brand new reissue copies of the novel\\, featurin
 g a new cover and limited-edition sprayed stencil edges.\\nAbout the Book
 : Navigating through the intolerant world of the early aughts and their o
 wn insecurities\\, three teenage boys find each other and the confidence 
 to come out of the closet in this seminal queer coming-of-age novel.\\nJa
 son Carillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend. He’s on track to play b
 all\\, marry his high school sweetheart\\, and get as far away from his a
 busive dad as possible—but that’s if he can get into college with his
  shaky math grades…and if he can stop dreaming about having sex with gu
 ys.\\nKyle Meeks is definitely gay\\, but he’s not planning on telling 
 anyone\\, least of all his parents. All he wants is to keep his head down
  and get through high school without incident—until Jason asks him for 
 help in math and all of a sudden\\, Kyle is spending long hours with a bo
 y he’s always found cute and it’s getting harder and harder to keep h
 is feelings under wraps.\\nNelson Glassman is out and loud about it\\, bu
 t being proud of who you are doesn’t mean things don’t get lonely. He
 ’s got a target on his back for the school bullies to kick\\, and while
  his mom supports him\\, she doesn’t entirely understand him. To make t
 hings worse\\, he and his best friend—and longtime crush—Kyle have be
 en spending more and more time apart\\, and he doesn’t know how to deal
 .\\nMessy\\, honest\\, and raw\\, Rainbow Boys follows these three boys
  as they come of age and come out of the closet in the early aughts in on
 e of the most revolutionary young adult novels in the last quarter centur
 y.\\nAbout the Author: Alex Sanchez spent almost fifteen years working wi
 th youth. He is the author of the teen novels Boyfriends with Girlfriends
 \\, Bait\\, The God Box\\, Getting It\\, Rainbow Boys\\, Rainbow Hig
 h\\, and Rainbow Road\\, as well as the Lambda Award–winning middle gr
 ade novel So Hard to Say. Lambda Literary honored Alex with a Jim Duggin
 s\\, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize. He lives in Thailand 
 and Hollywood\\, Florida. Visit him at AlexSanchez.com.\\nhttps://www.gay
 out.com/usa-canada/united-states/rochester/events/visiting-authors-series
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