In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal, even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jacks father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son hes gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jacks struggle to redefine what family means, A. M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humor, charm, and resonance, the most convincing, funny, and insightful novel about adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye.