Max and Jordan bond over prickly pears, frozen lemonade, and chicken in the nearly unbearable Mesa, Arizona summer heat. Though Jordan and Max may seem very different, both are working through understanding their sexuality and carrying some heavy secrets. After he witnesses Jordan’s mom go into complete emotional meltdown (because they are clueless about how to run a food truck), Max offers to help them. Max just so happens to stop by Jordan’s food truck on the first day he and his mom have hatched a plan to bring them out of financial ruin, caused by his widowed mother’s addiction to gambling. He is very in touch with his feminine side and feels most comfortable around his two female BFFs, who he refers to as his wives. Jordan is a skinny white poet who is in a co-dependent relationship with his emotionally unstable mother. He’s tough, like his dad expects him to be, and won’t let anything get to him. Max is an athletic, half white/half Latino dude bro who is in the closet about his sexuality with his classmates and buds. Max and Jordan couldn’t be more different on the outside.
Today we are featuring THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS by Bill Konigsberg! Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences.
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