The audition process is equal parts horrifying and hilarious. He arrives in Manhattan nervous but awestruck. Nate is self-effacing and smart, stuck at that awkward juncture of adolescence and adulthood. Instead, what readers get is a delightful (mis)adventure with an utterly lovable main character. Surprise! This plan doesn’t work out the way Nate hoped it would. He lies his way onto a bus for NYC hoping to audition and return before anybody notices he is missing. When a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of events occurs – his parents go out of town to celebrate their wedding anniversary, Anthony has a distant track meet, and Libby learns of an open casting call for “E.T.: The Musical,” Nate barely hesitates. Luckily, Nate has a true best friend, Libby, who shares his love of musical theatre. His parents shower their attention on older brother and star athlete, Anthony, and try to steer Nate from show tunes to soccer practice. He is decidedly unsure about his own sexual orientation, but the jerks at school have decided he’s gay and pummel him with “faggot” every chance they get. At home in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, PA, Nate Foster, 13, feels like a fish that flopped out of the Monongahela River and is gasping for air to survive.
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