David Levithan's "Boy Meets Boy"

I have just finished reading David Levithan’s gay romance fiction “Boy Meets Boy”. What made this book interesting is that though this book dwells on the innocent and fluffy love story of Paul and Noah, it doesn’t lack depth and do not pass out as a juvenile account of “another gay love story”. At some point, I furrowed my brows over the story’s well done narrative and wondered where the juicy bits are, only to be reminded that I was after all reading a Gay Teen Fiction. David Levithan wrote about a teen gay love story that didn’t make you despise it for being hackneyed or shallow (I was far from being nauseous at all). Instead, he makes you laugh and love each character in all their many splendored queerness: there is the well-adjusted queer- Paul, the closet queer- Tony, the bi-curious-Kyle, the artsy- Noah and the drag queen- Infinite Darlene (I know I am missing an entry to other existing kinds, I am not at all an expert on queer nomenclature). But this is not about queer hormones, on the brink of discovering love and the possibilities of sex, this about different struggles: in life and of finding love, the one that works and the one that redeems one’s self from the failure of the previous one or of many previous ones. This is also about friendship, too, its beautiful and tough moments, its many ups and downs and the unspeakable magic that makes it work in the end. David Levithan didn’t fail on keeping the barometer of reading pleasure at a certain height. It is a clean, twinkling novel, gushing with beautiful prose and romance that warms the heart, dead ringer for Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. True, there are things in life that requires a certain amount of bravery in us, we are lucky to have faced them alone yet we are even luckier to have faced them with the right people, with friends and family.