Book #38 of 2016. 
 A few times in our short lives, we are lucky enough to stumble into a book that we know we will recommend after only 30 pages. "Boy Meets Boy" did that for me. 
 Sure, it's this weird, somewhat absurdist community that our characters live in, but because so many rules are broken, the characters in this novel get to just exist and be real people. I felt like I had been in the same situations (or similar ones) to many of the ones presented, and the characters' emotional responses felt totally genuine. 
 I also can't believe that this book was published over 10 years ago. This is one of those books where we bypass the "issue" stuff (i.e. LGBT stuff) and just focus on the fact that these are real people with a myriad of problems. It kind of irks me that the title of this is "Boy Meets Boy" since I think that Paul's journey was larger than that.