What's This Shit Called Love by Evgenia Peretz
Growing up in a hedonistic, rule-free household in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1980s, 17 year-old Ben Marsh is drawn to the local straight edge scene as a means of escape. But his true passion is for his new friend Patrick— a secret his free love parents are way too excited about. A coming of age story with a punk rock twist, What’s This Shit Called Love explores adolescent friendship, sexual identity and the craving to belong.
Growing up in a hedonistic, rule-free household in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1980s, 17 year-old Ben Marsh is drawn to the local straight edge scene as a means of escape. But his true passion is for his new friend Patrick— a secret his free love parents are way too excited about. A coming of age story with a punk rock twist, What’s This Shit Called Love explores adolescent friendship, sexual identity and the craving to belong.
Growing up in a hedonistic, rule-free household in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1980s, 17 year-old Ben Marsh is drawn to the local straight edge scene as a means of escape. But his true passion is for his new friend Patrick— a secret his free love parents are way too excited about. A coming of age story with a punk rock twist, What’s This Shit Called Love explores adolescent friendship, sexual identity and the craving to belong.