![]() ![]() Web is a kind of escape Jonathan has never known. Web is the first person in the real world to see Jonathan completely and think he’s perfect. Jonathan wants nothing more than to be “fixed” once and for all. Jonathan doesn’t want to like brooding Web, who has secrets all his own. Web is everything Jonathan wishes he could be: fearless, fearsome and, most importantly, not ashamed of being gay. But before that can happen, Web stumbles into his life. When he completes his treatments, he will be normal-at least he hopes. ![]() In his alternate reality, Jonathan can be anything: a superhero, an astronaut, Ziggy Stardust, himself, or completely “normal” and not a boy who likes other boys. To cope, Jonathan escapes to the safe haven of his imagination, where his hero David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and dead relatives, including his mother, guide him through the rough terrain of his life. In the midst of these trying times is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid, who aside from an alcoholic father and his sympathetic neighbor and friend Starla, is completely alone. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. ![]() Ziggy, Stardust, & Me by James Brandon (6th) ![]()
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