Boy A Journey edition by James Stryker Literature Fiction eBooks
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Luke may never have been close to his father, but he feels like he knew him. Jay was a frustrating parent – always urging Luke to go to mortuary school, disapproving of his Broadway aspirations, and favoring his other children. He even had the audacity to die mid-argument, forcing additional guilt on Luke for never meeting his expectations.
However, Luke’s assumptions about Jay are thrown into turmoil at the funeral when an enigmatic stranger, Tom, expresses gratitude that Jay finally shared his past with his children. When Luke can’t hide his confusion, Tom realizes his mistake and bolts. Riddled with questions, Luke confronts his family. He is shocked to discover that everyone guards the truth that Jay was a transgender man who’d been raised as a female. Practiced at keeping his father’s secrets, they’re unwilling to reveal anything further at Luke’s demand. Devastated by Jay’s lack of trust in him, Luke feels forced to abandon the family who deceived him although leaving them behind won’t answer his questions.
To discover the reason his father hid his gender identity, Luke seeks the only other person with answers, Tom. In Luke’s eyes, he is owed an explanation, even if it’s a difficult one. However, Tom harbors a deep protective devotion to Jay, a loyalty he feels the truth would betray. Additionally, as a man suffering with terminal cancer, he has no desire to drudge up painful memories by playing Luke’s Virgil. Luke must earn his trust before the secret past of both men dies with Tom.
Boy A Journey edition by James Stryker Literature Fiction eBooks
Kudos to James Stryker for writing a compelling tale with a universal theme, one that both illumines and transcends its genre. While this book treats of LGTBQA matters, it speaks to everyone with an open heart who is undergoing the human experience. The story follows Luke, a young man who needs to outgrow his "boy" status even more than he realizes, as he unearths a family secret and learns how to overcome his own defensive ego and become a man in the best sense of the word. His path follows the unspooling of his father's history, and brings him into confrontation with his assumptions of just who comprises his family.Luke is not a likable character, at least not for a long time. Neither is Tom, the man whose history with Luke's dad is gradually revealed: both defend their vulnerability with brittle wit, resentment, and hostility. There were a few points where I was nearly ready to give up on Luke as well as Tom and not to mention Luke's prickly mother and sister, but Stryker gave me just enough — emotional depth, the possibility of redemption — to keep going. The story comes to a satisfying if unsurprising conclusion.
Stryker writes with a sure, clear voice and is especially adept at the dialogue of his bright, witty characters. He has a knack for allowing his characters to dig through the messiness of their lives and come up with hard-won gems of wisdom. My quibbles are these: we spend so much time reliving scenes through alternate characters' points of view, and so much of the story is a slow reveal of the life of Jay — Luke's dad, who dies in the first chapter — that at times the story becomes frustratingly recursive. Rather mysteriously, the author has set the story in 2038, for no reason that I can discern since the world these characters inhabit seems identical to the present. Still, it's a worthwhile, carefully crafted and heartfelt read.
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Boy A Journey edition by James Stryker Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This may be one of the most difficult reviews I’ve ever written, partly because it was not an easy book to read, but also because I want to do justice to a masterful piece of literature.
In this book we encounter deep sorrow, grief no one should ever have to encounter, jealousy, paranoia on a substantial scale, and secrets kept for too long. Let me introduce the main characters Luke and Beau are twin brother and sister. Their parents are Jay, a mortician, and Jackie. Beau is married to Jake (aka Ginger), who is also a mortician. Tom is Jay’s best friend from childhood.
Jay is tragically killed at the beginning of the story and much of the book revolves around Jay’s funeral and secrets that are revealed to and by various family members. Luke has returned home from a year in New York, trying to be a success on Broadway, and is the witness to his father’s death. The rift between father and son is therefore never healed; Jay dies too soon.
This is a dark tragedy, written as a mystery. There really is no mystery, but since the past is revealed in bits and pieces, by various people, it reads as a mystery. Luke is the only one who doesn’t know any of the puzzle. Each family member and Tom know some of the story but it is up to Luke to put it all together. What drives a wedge between Luke and the family is the fact that everything has been kept from him for his entire life. Even his beloved twin sister holds important parts of the truth, and this is the knife that cuts most deeply. The hatred Luke holds for his brother-in-law is born from jealousy and paranoia, and may be too much damage to ever heal.
Tom knows everything, but sadly, Tom is dying. Will Luke get the information he so desperately wants before Tom’s death? If Tom dies, will everything Luke needs to know disappear with Tom? I am so afraid of giving away spoilers I don’t want to tell more.
A beautifully written book, highly recommended, but bring tissues.
I bought it, read it, loved it. This book is a kind of coming to age and knowledge story but told almost like a suspense thriller. It is a pageturner in every step. The unlikable characters make you to accept them (I don't even know hot it happened, lol). I love everything James writes, this book is no different.
Kudos to James Stryker for writing a compelling tale with a universal theme, one that both illumines and transcends its genre. While this book treats of LGTBQA matters, it speaks to everyone with an open heart who is undergoing the human experience. The story follows Luke, a young man who needs to outgrow his "boy" status even more than he realizes, as he unearths a family secret and learns how to overcome his own defensive ego and become a man in the best sense of the word. His path follows the unspooling of his father's history, and brings him into confrontation with his assumptions of just who comprises his family.
Luke is not a likable character, at least not for a long time. Neither is Tom, the man whose history with Luke's dad is gradually revealed both defend their vulnerability with brittle wit, resentment, and hostility. There were a few points where I was nearly ready to give up on Luke as well as Tom and not to mention Luke's prickly mother and sister, but Stryker gave me just enough — emotional depth, the possibility of redemption — to keep going. The story comes to a satisfying if unsurprising conclusion.
Stryker writes with a sure, clear voice and is especially adept at the dialogue of his bright, witty characters. He has a knack for allowing his characters to dig through the messiness of their lives and come up with hard-won gems of wisdom. My quibbles are these we spend so much time reliving scenes through alternate characters' points of view, and so much of the story is a slow reveal of the life of Jay — Luke's dad, who dies in the first chapter — that at times the story becomes frustratingly recursive. Rather mysteriously, the author has set the story in 2038, for no reason that I can discern since the world these characters inhabit seems identical to the present. Still, it's a worthwhile, carefully crafted and heartfelt read.
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