Boys of Alabama

by Genevieve Hudson

Book Overview

In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. While his German parents don't know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives in the thick heat. Taken in by the football team, he learns how to catch a spiraling ball, how to point a gun, and how to hide his innermost secrets.

Max already expects some of the raucous behavior of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631496298
• ISBN13: 9781631496295
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Supernatural gay love, what's better?

If you like queer pining, coming of age YA romance novels, and a dollop of the paranormal, you'll like Boys of Alabama. I zoomed through this book, as I'd consider those parameters for my comfort readings, and although the dialog is a little too on the nose at times, the meat of this book is Hudson's mastery of prose. In the way they describe worlds colliding for Max, his experience moving to Alabama from Germany, we see mundanity through a beautiful lens. The end left me wanting in a less exciting way, I felt as though the author stopped mid thought, and it still frustrates me. My assumption is usually that there is a meaningful intention for an author to end a novel in such a way, but I keep thinking that in this case it detracted from the story more than it lifted. Despite this, I highly recommend this lovely slice of southern-gothic Americana. It is a lush world well-peopled.