{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Openly Straight","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/openly-straight","description":"Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He\u0026#39;s won skiing prizes. He likes to write.\n\nAnd, oh yeah, he\u0026#39;s gay. He\u0026#39;s been out since 8th grade, and he isn\u0026#39;t teased, and he goes to other high schools and talks about tolerance and stuff. And while that\u0026#39;s important, all Rafe really wants is to just be a regular guy. Not that GAY guy. To have it be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time.\n\nSo when he transfers to an all-boys\u0026#39; boarding school in New England, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret -- not so much going back in the closet as starting over with a clean slate. But then he sees a classmate break down. He meets a teacher who challenges him to write his story. And most of all, he falls in love with Ben . . . who doesn\u0026#39;t even know that love is possible.\n\nThis witty, smart, coming-out-again story will appeal to gay and straight kids alike as they watch Rafe navigate feeling different, fitting in, and what it means to be himself.","author_name":"Bill Konigsberg","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/bill-konigsberg","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/1365877/16a39e77e50c961cdfbee09eb9325b3ca40b3e0d.jpeg","thumbnail_width":331,"thumbnail_height":500}