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15 & 16: A Novel
You can’t be a man and be gay.
You can’t be gay and be a man.
This is according to the unwritten rule that quietly floats about in the black community, where Omar Conyers resides east of Atlanta. Omar is a slightly overweight teen that wants nothing more than to be seen as a man, to be honored with the grandeur of respect. But he has this serious problem liking this guy, who is out of the picture, but hides behind his true feelings by sleeping around with this married woman. He does so with the strong hope that he isn’t burden with the task of exploring his perplex sexuality in his already chaotic life.
As Omar racks his brain over what it means to be a man by taking verbal scraps from the broken souls around him, his world is thrown in a tailspin after the rape of a close friend and he stumbles upon an explicit secret that bringing both his quest for manhood and his sexual curiosity to the forefront of his young life.
In a world where it is perfectly okay to praise the pimp and stone the sissy, Fifteen & Sixteen present an unapologetic need to be politically incorrect in being black and sexually questioning in America.
You can’t be gay and be a man.
This is according to the unwritten rule that quietly floats about in the black community, where Omar Conyers resides east of Atlanta. Omar is a slightly overweight teen that wants nothing more than to be seen as a man, to be honored with the grandeur of respect. But he has this serious problem liking this guy, who is out of the picture, but hides behind his true feelings by sleeping around with this married woman. He does so with the strong hope that he isn’t burden with the task of exploring his perplex sexuality in his already chaotic life.
As Omar racks his brain over what it means to be a man by taking verbal scraps from the broken souls around him, his world is thrown in a tailspin after the rape of a close friend and he stumbles upon an explicit secret that bringing both his quest for manhood and his sexual curiosity to the forefront of his young life.
In a world where it is perfectly okay to praise the pimp and stone the sissy, Fifteen & Sixteen present an unapologetic need to be politically incorrect in being black and sexually questioning in America.
357 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 30, 2019
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