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—Kaye Trout, Midwest Book Review

About the Book

 Best friends, Donna DiSimone and Kenny George, have been out of touch since their first couple years out of college. So a call from Kenny out of the blue thrills Donna so much (especially now that she actually has something exciting to tell him) that she barely has time to realize that this is not a happy, routine catch-up call before blurting out her good news. Kenny’s news makes Donna’s engagement seem trite. Kenny, whom she had spent her entire childhood with, is finally coming clean about the lie he had lived for so many of those years. He is not gay. Donna does not exclaim disbelief. In fact, for Donna, having a relationship of any kind is more surreal to her than Kenny having a heterosexual one. Donna has spent so much time loathing herself that she never, until she met her fiancé, had any notion of loving or being loved by anyone else. But reuniting becomes more than just fun and memories when tragedy strikes Kenny, then Donna. The two are finally forced to quit meandering through life, and take charge of their futures. They are forced to deal with the problems they have always avoided—to participate in life rather than watching others live. In short, they are forced to become real.