Reality Boy

King, A.S. (2013). Reality Boy. NY: Little Brown.

Gerald Faust was 5 years old when cameras came into his home for a reality show called “Network Nanny”.   12 years later, Gerald feels angry and is raging with hatred because of this reality show.  Gerald has to sort through what is true reality about his family. Gerald’s family is very dysfunctional.  Gerald meets a girl at his job named Hannah.  Hannah and Gerald  finally feels some type of connection that he feels that is true and not fake.  I feel that young adults will feel a great connection to this book because of the realness and trueness.  I feel this book is for a mature audience because of the mature content in the book.  Havighurst theory is that adolescents must define their appropriate sex roles.  Gerald is negotiating the expectations of what it means to be a young man in today’s society.