Coles ( Tyler Johnson Was Here) tackles the complexities of religion and sexuality, trauma and forgiveness, and race and relationships, exploring the myriad layers of one person’s identity and the importance of each in this emotional, yet joyful, novel. With tensions rising at home, Gio fights to make sense of complicated emotions regarding his mother, David, and David’s whiteness, while also maintaining his grades, basketball, and social life. Giovanni (Gio) lives with his preacher and alcoholic father, caring. Concurrently, he must face his sexuality when David, a new neighbor and basketball teammate, develops a crush on him. THINGS WE COULDNT SAY is a powerful read about family and being true to yourself. As Gio works toward developing an upbeat outlook, his birth mother suddenly reappears, asking to be part of his life. Beneath his joy, though, Gio struggles to navigate his relationship with his pastor father, who hates that Gio is both bisexual and plays basketball instead of devoting his life to the church the trauma from his mother abandoning the family when he was younger and the world as a Black teenager. In Things We Couldn't Say, Jay Coles, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity - hoping at the other end he'll be able to figure out who is and who he should be.High school junior Giovanni Zander, 17, loves the band Paramore, making playlists, and spending time with his two best friends-Ayesha, who is Black, and Olly, who is white-as well as his younger brother, Theo. There are no easy answers to love - whether it's family love or friend love or romantic love. especially because he's not sure what he wants from anyone right now. Praise for Things We Couldn't Say: 'I cannot even explain how excited I am about having a new Jay Coles book in my life.' - Buzzfeed 'Jay Coles' new novel is a touching coming-of-age story about a bi Black teen navigating the treacherous waters of high school, sports, and first love - just as his estranged mother returns from a years-long. Are they friends? More than friends? At first, Gio's not sure. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further, Gio's started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team.
and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back. For eight years, he never heard a word from her. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because he's into both guys and girls.
There's always been a hole in Gio's life. From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles is a fantastic new novel about a. True Book: Understanding Climate Change.
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