Idlewild Thomas James Frankie
Idlewild Thomas James Frankie A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school…
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Idlewild Thomas James Frankie
A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novelIdlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers.For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse.
The two of them bond fiercely and spend all their waking hours giddily parsing their environment for homoerotic subtext. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive, and obsessed with Fay. Then, during rehearsals for the fall play, they notice two sexually ambiguous boys who are potential candidates