Review: I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. by John Donovan

I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth The Trip.: 40th Anniversary Edition by John Donovan

Recommended.

There's no doubt that John Donovan's 1969 young adult novel, I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip is historically significant—charmingly pitched by the author to Harper & Row editor Ursula Nordstrom as a "buddy love" novel, I'll Get There . . . was, in fact, the first teen novel to include "gay" content. In an era when homosexuality was still considered a mental disorder...