M quoted Blacktop Wasteland
His son was smart and talented, just in a different way. His Daddy used to say you didn't call a fish dumb because it couldn't climb a tree.
— Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby (Page 99)
This book is set in a mid 90s boy scout summer camp and he captured that setting very accurately including random violence, grossness, merit badge classes, campfire songs, and tons and tons of explicit anti gay language and behavior. I didn’t like it because I felt like the majority of the book was about the main character’s suffering and there wasn’t enough “it gets better” for me.
