THESE THINGS HAPPEN

Book ID/图书代码： 02330012B52847

English Summary/英文概要： A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. Wesley, a tenth grader, and his two sets of parents (the mom and her second husband, a very thoughtful doctor; and the father who has become a major gay lawyer/activist and his fabulous "significant other" who owns a restaurant). Wesley is a fabulous kid, whose equally fabulous best friend Theo has just won a big school election and simultaneously surprises everyone in his life by announcing that he is gay. No one is more surprised than Wesley, who actually lives temporarily with his gay father and partner, so that he can get to know his rather elusive dad. When a dramatic and unexpected trauma befalls the boys in school, all the parents converge noisily in love and well-meaning support. But through it all, each character ultimately is made to face certain challenges and assumptions within his/her own life, and the playing out of their respective life priorities and decisions is what makes this novel so endearing and so special.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 他們是外人眼中的孽子，但終究是我的父親、摯友

Wesley是位優秀的孩子，雙親離異後，母親嫁給一位體貼的醫師，父親和他的伴侶George，致力於同志人權運動。父母各自過著快樂的日子。過去兩個月Wesley暫住父親家，他常常煩惱如何與父親、George自然地相處。
今天從小一起長大的好友Theo贏得學生會選舉，發表當選感言時，突然宣告出櫃。這一告白嚇壞所有人，可是大概沒有人的驚嚇程度能超過Wesley。
每天面對父親與George已是個棘手的問題，現在Theo又突然出櫃。外界奇異的眼光使Wesley不免常感到困惑。直到經歷許多事情後，Wesley更加明白這群孽子們出櫃前後並沒有改變，終究還是自己的父親、好友。(Iris)

Awards/获奖情况：“Artful, thoughtful and extremely funny, this is a wonderful first novel about artifice and the discovery of true feeling, about the roles we play and what we choose to make of them.” --- Cathleen Schine

"Like the two main characters it so unforgettably etches, Richard Kramer’s first novel exemplifies the virtues of both youth and maturity: it manages to be both wise and wide-eyed, sage and sensitive, deeply funny and, in the end, disarmingly touching. The man behind "thirtysomething" and "My So-Called Life" has taken his trademark qualities--the grownup’s shrewdness about the way the world works and the adolescent’s disarming emotional nakedness--and fashioned from them a very affecting work of fiction." --- Daniel Mendelsohn

“Beneath its glimmering wit and knowing portrayal of a very particular New York, Richard Kramer’s beguiling first novel is a fresh, brave love story: a story of the many complex ways in which men--and boys reaching toward becoming men--love one another. In his wonderful assembly of fathers, sons, husbands, longtime companions, and adolescents grappling with the heavenly hell of sexual awakening, there is precious little territory of the male heart into which Kramer does not venture with audacity and tenderness. I closed this book feeling delighted, moved, and oddly privileged to have had such a wise escort on a journey both familiar and utterly foreign!”--- Julia Glass

About the Author/作者介绍： Richard Kramer 成長於紐約，畢業於耶魯大學。第一份工作是為《紐約客》(The New Yorker)雜誌撰寫專欄。曾參與多部影集的編劇，獲得極高的評價。目前除了偶爾替雜誌撰寫專欄外，主要工作為編劇、作家。
Richard Kramer. Mr. Kramer grew up in New York, was educated at Yale College, and began his career writing for The New Yorker. While working as a singles host on a cruise ship he wrote, from ignorance and passion, a script for the TV series Family, sent it to the producers, and a year later learned they wanted to buy it and bring him to California; had this not happened Theater District might be his tenth play instead of his first. Television taught him to cut, collaborate, and to know that deadlines help. He was also lucky to find creative partners who encouraged his specific voice and only yelled at him when it wasn’t specific enough (or on time). This partnership led to series like Thirty something, My So-Called Life, and Once And Again.
Mr. Kramer has won many awards and lost more, and has found that the food at losing events is somehow always better. Ever since that first Family script he has secretly seen himself as a playwright, but worried if he told someone he’d have to actually write a play. One day he did, and he has watched with pleasure as it has found a series of safe warm homes. After the first production at Steppenwolf he took out all the good stuff and put in a lot of bad stuff. Now the bad stuff is out and the good stuff is back. He hopes to write many new plays and maybe even a few old ones.

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