One Man Guy - Two Young Guys Grow Up, Find Themselves, and Fall In Love -- "with some help from nearby New York City"

One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva

Alek Khederian should have guessed something was wrong when his parents took him to a restaurant. Everyone knows that Armenians never eat out. Why bother, when their home cooking is far superior to anything "these Americans" could come up with? Between bouts of interrogating the waitress and criticizing the menu, Alek's parents announce that he'll be attending summer school in order to bring up his grades. Alek is sure this experience will be the perfect hellish end to his hellish freshmen year of high school. He never could've predicted that he'd meet someone like Ethan.

Ethan is everything Alek wishes he were: confident, free-spirited, and irreverent. When Ethan gets Alek to cut school and go to a Rufus Wainwright concert in New York City's Central Park, Alek embarks on his first adventure outside the confines of his suburban New Jersey existence. He can't believe a guy this cool wants to be his friend. And before long, it seems like Ethan wants to be more than friends. Alek has never thought about having a boyfriend he's barely ever had a girlfriend but maybe it's time to think again.

At the B&N reads blog Dahlia Adler called this novel "all kinds of adorable—the perfect read for those looking for queer kidlit without a lot of angst." Publishers Weekly had the review that called it "a sweet portrait of nascent adolescent love between two boys growing up and finding themselves (with some help from nearby New York City.)"

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