Awards

• Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Children/Young Adult) 2009
• Winner of Stonewall Book Award (Children/Young Adult) 2010

Overview

It's Dade's last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a ?boyfriend? who won't publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade's shining beacon of possibility, a horizon to keep him from floating away. Then he meets the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Falling in real love finally lets Dade come out of the closet?and, ironically, ignites a ruthless passion in Pablo. But just when true happiness has set in, tragedy shatters the dreamy curtain of summer, and Dade will use every ounce of strength he's gained to break from his past and start fresh with the future.

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Reviews

A fascinating and dreamy first novel. - New York Times Bold. Engaging. Heartbreaking. -Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of Crank A brilliant account of alienation and angst in the heartland. - Quest Magazine Nick Burd reaps a bounty from The Vast Fields of Ordinary. - Vanity Fair Burd is a terrific writer+he is a new talent to watch. - Booklist, starred review

?Burd?takes a familiar plot and makes it fresh?an author to watch.? - Publishers Weekly <p> ?A fascinating and dreamy first novel.? - New York Times <p> .. .a refreshingly honest, sometimes funny, and often tender novel. -- School Library Journal, starred review<p> Burd breathes new life into the old coming-out formula...One of the best in a new generation of LGBTQ novels, it can stand alongside Peter Cameron's and Brian Sloan's. -- Kirkus, starred review<p> ?Nick Burd's The Vast Fields of Ordinary is bold. Engaging. Heartbreaking. A book worthy of attention.? - Ellen Hopkins <p> The Vast Fields of Ordinary is a wonderfully engaging and satisfying book about all kinds of growing: growing up, growing together, growing apart. Dade Hamilton and his family and friends (and enemies) are all vividly and complexly imagined and realized, and I loved spending time with them. Nick Burd's extremely accomplished and beautifully detailed prose reanimates the usually moribund American suburban

Burd...takes a familiar plot and makes it fresh...an author to watch. - Publishers Weekly A fascinating and dreamy first novel. - New York Times .. .a refreshingly honest, sometimes funny, and often tender novel. -- School Library Journal, starred review Burd breathes new life into the old coming-out formula...One of the best in a new generation of LGBTQ novels, it can stand alongside Peter Cameron's and Brian Sloan's. -- Kirkus, starred review Nick Burd's The Vast Fields of Ordinary is bold. Engaging. Heartbreaking. A book worthy of attention. - Ellen Hopkins The Vast Fields of Ordinary is a wonderfully engaging and satisfying book about all kinds of growing: growing up, growing together, growing apart. Dade Hamilton and his family and friends (and enemies) are all vividly and complexly imagined and realized, and I loved spending time with them. Nick Burd's extremely accomplished and beautifully detailed prose reanimates the usual

Author Information

Nick Burd attended the University of Iowa and received his MFA from The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Vast Fields of Ordinary is his first novel.

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