The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom.
At fifteen Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh?s father and Khadijah?s mother kissing in a natural foods store. They make a pact never to cheat on anyone ever. They have no problem keeping the vow?until they meet again at twenty-eight both struggling with career and identity and both engaged to other people.
Part interethnic romance part intergenerational conflict Good Kids is a hilarious sad handsomely plotted story of love and class in the era of the redefined household. Stylistically adventurous but always accessible Nugent trains a keen ear on the vernaculars of generation Y and the baby boomers as young and middle-aged alike try to decide what parenting background and loyalty mean in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.
