BOOK REVIEW

Title: Setting the Lawn on Fire: a novel

Author: Mack Friedman

In ten words or less: Horny teen leaves Milwaukee to discover the gay life.

Review: Ivan is a gay,, Jewish teen who heads off to Alaska looking for a job in a fishing village. The fishing boats are on strike, and Ivan ends up living rough in a tent city. He spends most of his time thinking about sex. And when he leaves to go to college, he is still thinking about sex, and takes a job with the Hot Jock Cleaning Service. Readers uncomfortable with graphic descriptions of gay sex will want to skip this book.

Why bother? A gay teen's coming of age story.