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High school senior Jim Wallace faces the approaching Christmas holidays with a mixture of hope and dread. To escape the pressure, he imagines the woods and marshes around his home to be an independent country, Wallaçonia, where he is accepted and recognized as the ""upright and sterling"" young man people expect him to be. And he may make it yet: this could be the week he and his girlfriend Liz finally have sex, putting to rest any lingering doubts Jim has about what kind of guy he really is. But then Pat Baxter, a neighbor, asks him to help out in his bookstore during the holiday rush, and Jim starts making new connections - and rediscovering an old one. Will Jim leave the sanctuary of his imaginary Wallaçonia for the real world? And which real world will it be, the one with Liz or the one that beckons from the bookstore?

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Sharp, focused, super-intense, and special. It's rare to find a novel with such a beautifully rendered freindship between a young gay man and an older mentor. I know I'll remember the relationship between Jim and Pat for a long, long time. -Bill Konigsberg, author of Openly Straight and The Porcupine of Truth Moving and funny. The confusing tumble of coming out gets a contemporary twist. -Jim Provenzano, author of PINS and Every Time I Think of You

""Sharp, focused, super-intense, and special. It's rare to find a novel with such a beautifully rendered freindship between a young gay man and an older mentor. I know I'll remember the relationship between Jim and Pat for a long, long time."" -Bill Konigsberg, author of Openly Straight and The Porcupine of Truth ""Moving and funny. The confusing tumble of coming out gets a contemporary twist."" -Jim Provenzano, author of PINS and Every Time I Think of You

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