![]() ![]() The result is a funny, painful, touching, heartbreaking and ultimately optimistic view of life as a teenager coming to grips with his sexuality. But, they’re in Boise, for God’s sake, and that just doesn’t work. This, of course, is the worst thing possible, even though they somehow know it shouldn’t be. ![]() Then, not quite simultaneously, but almost, Niko and Tommy kind of realize that they’re into each other. Their lives are not free of strife and family drama, but they’re playing the game the way they think they’re supposed to, and so far they’re making a good job of it. In fact, both Niko and Tommy are good guys. Neither is Thomas Chu, the jock who’s been Niko’s best friend since childhood in Boise, Idaho. The thing about Niko Savic, the central figure of this ensemble-cast romantic drama/comedy, is that he’s sort of a 21st-century Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye), except for one thing. This book I really loved, almost without reservation.* Ah, I read “Mickey and the Chickadee” in 2016, and sort of loved it (four stars) but had a few moments of confusion about the young author’s verbiage. ![]()
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