About the same time, he learns that his father had been seeing another woman when his mother had her accident-or could it have been suicide? Spiteful Aunt Nora is happy to provide plenty of innuendo, and Kevin takes advantage of his position at the Red Owl to wreak revenge on the other woman, a regular customer. Soon he finds he's fallen for Jon more deeply than he could have hoped. One night, however, he is so horrified at finding his beloved Jon Thompson hitting on classmate Allison that he asks Allison out himself-and she accepts. Unfortunately for Kevin, the girls seem to be lining up for him, too, and he tries hard to avoid getting involved without letting on that he’s gay. Kevin’s mother died in a car accident two years earlier, and the boy helps his father fend off the widows lining up for him by claiming his father is about to remarry, or has become a Muslim, or is moving away.
He is also in love with classmate Jon Thompson. An easygoing jock at Northeast High in Minneapolis in 1978, Kevin hangs out with friends, gossips about who got sickest last Saturday, bags groceries at the Red Owl, and makes fun of his teachers behind their backs. Kevin Doyle is the sort of outwardly normal midwestern type that Garrison Keillor works into his Prairie Home Companion routines. A coming-of-ager about a gay teenager in the 1970s Twin Cities.
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