Home |Register |Sign In Home Top Picks: All Books Anything Could Happen Anything Could Happen by Will Walton Price: $9.99 (Paperback) Published: November 29, 2016 Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) From the Publisher: Tretch lives in a very small town where everybody's in everybody else's business.</p><p> Which makes it hard for him to be in love with his straight best friend.</p><p> For his part, Matt is completely oblivious to the way Tretch feels --and Tretch can't tell whether that makes it better or worse.</p><p> The problemwith living a lie is that the lie can slowly become your life.</p><p> For Tretch, the problem isn't just with Matt.</p><p> His family has no idea who he really is and what he's really thinking.</p><p> The girl at the local bookstore has no cluehow off-base her crush on him is.</p><p> And the guy at school who's a thorn inTretch's side doesn't realize how close to the truth he's hitting.</p><p> Tretch hasspent a lot of time dancing alone in his room, but now he's got to step outside his comfort zone and into the wider world.</p><p> Because like love, a true self can rarely be contained.</p><p> Rate This Book Add To Wishlist |Rate/Review Add To Bookshelf Get This Book Personalize / Add More ChoicesGo to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site where you can get this book.</p><p> What We Say In this sweet-natured, coming of age tale, gay teen Tretch Farm has finally come out to himself.</p><p> That probably wouldn't shock most of his family and friends since Tretch loves Tayor Swift, is an awesome dancer, proves creative and kind andeverything else one hopes for in young gay role models.</p><p> The story and jokes and low-key angst as Tretch gins up the courage to come out to his brother and then others is indeed familiar, perhaps comfortingly familiar to any teen or their allies dealing with similar straits.</p><p> Like many young adult novels in recent years, it also feels overloaded with hot buttonissues.</p><p> Debut author Will Walton is perhaps doing a little bait and switch -- he keeps us off balance about what the focus ofShare This Book About The Author Will Walton Release Info List Price: $9.99 (Paperback) Published: November 29, 2016 Publisher: Push Pages: 288 ISBN 10: 1338032496 ISBN 13: 9781338032499the book will be after Tretch's gay identity is established.</p><p> One such item (financial troubles for the family or perhaps their business partners) isn't even resolved.</p><p> Not so for many other topics, which run the gamut from cancer to gay dads to school bullies (who must be hugged) to straight best friends who are so crush-able to aging grandparents to PSTD for veterans and so on and so forth.</p><p> Fewer issues handled with more complexity would have been welcome.</p><p> And a late inning "accident/sort-of-but-not-really suicide attempt" prevented by an unexplained and hard to believe deus ex machina feels way out of placewith the sunny outlook that predominates.</p><p> Despite the after-school special parade of issues, most of "Anything CouldHappen" is dominated by a breezy, sunny optimism that is very welcome, right down to parents one just knows will be accepting when Tretch finds the courage to open up.</p><p> With this big-hearted if ultimately disappointing story out of his system, Walton might just find the heart to have something more original and prickly and bracing to say.</p><p> Because heart hedefinitely has. -- Michael Giltz What Others Say Praise for Will Walton's Anything Could Happen : "Will Walton makes magic in his funny-sad-lovely heartache of a debut novel, Anything Could Happen .</p><p> Main character Tretch Farm says it best: ‘There’s sickness, and there’s sadness.</p><p> But the thing is, there’s love, too.’ So much love.</p><p> This book is good.</p><p> It really is.</p><p> It really, really is." -- Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places "PUSH is proud to introduce a phenomenal debut about the unpredictable, unbearable, and ultimately amazing trajectory of falling in love and falling into the right place." -- David Levithan "This coming-of-age contemporary reveals an emotionally poignant story that perfectly captures the trials and tribulations of adolescence.</p><p> It's the perfect follow-up read to any John Green novel." -- Buzzfeed - What You Say Filter by No Reviews Found ..... about us |faq|advertise |privacy policy |newsletter |contact us ©2018, BookBuddha LLc.</p><p> All Rights Reserved.
