{"id":64,"date":"2009-11-12T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:18:58","slug":"a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_my_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_my_\/","title":{"rendered":"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Sexual Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/232656821\">Alan, Kage. <em>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Sexual Orientation.<\/em> Austin, TX: Zumaya Boundless, 2008 (2003). $14.99. ISBN: 9781934135914.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bloglink\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"a funny thing happened\" src=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+6731017875837_140.jpg?SearchOrder=+-+TN,AV,FA,GO\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"212\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Home from college for the summer of 1989, but with no car and no girlfriend, 19-year-old Andy Stevenson just hoped for a break from his dull Detroit suburban life when he agreed to accompany his addled, cantankerous grandmother to her brother&#8217;s 50th anniversary party in California. But a chance meeting with his handsome cousin Jordan leads to his first same-sex kiss and a six-day comedic whirlwind that ends up bringing Andy out of the closet.<\/p>\n<p>Kage Alan takes the familiar theme of the vacationing teen who suddenly sexually blooms, and tells it from the point of a gay teen in denial. Andy narrates his own story with self-deprecating humor, but the slapstick antics of his family, the girls of California, and Andy&#8217;s own impromptu performance at a gay bar lead to several laugh-out-loud moments.<\/p>\n<p>There is tenderness, too. Jordan sweetly engages Andy and patiently helps him shed his Midwestern reserve. When, towards the end of the book, Andy and Jordan make love, Andy&#8217;s innocent awe and excitement over what he has been missing leaps out at the reader.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Reviewed by,\u00a0<strong>John Bradford<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em> Head, Automation &amp; Technical Services<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Villa Park (IL) Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan, Kage. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Sexual Orientation. Austin, TX: Zumaya Boundless, 2008 (2003). $14.99. ISBN: 9781934135914. Home from college for the summer of 1989, but with no car and no girlfriend, 19-year-old Andy Stevenson just hoped for a break from his dull Detroit suburban life when he agreed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}