Two adults looking back at their complicated teenaged relationship which began on 9/11 and ended with situations that they both regret -- told in alternating sections between the two characters
Has heart and wit and bite -- you'll want to read this in one sitting
Wildly dark novel with a great sense of humor
Idlewild is for the readers of Prep and The Secret History who also grew up on the Internet, whose sense of humor was shaped by the early aughts, and who have an interest in queer and trans narratives
Thomas realized that he was transgender only when MFA classmates at the Iowa Writers' Workshop unexpectedly pointed out that one of Idlewild's two protagonists read as a closeted trans man
