On Boxing Day, NPR's series You Must Read This featured YA novelist Jennifer Hubbard raving about Peter Cameron's wonderful, wonderful novel Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
In the first two pages, in which the narrator refers to his sister as "a bit of a linguistic zealot" and worries about his mother's announcing "in a disturbing brainwashy way" that she plans to spend her third honeymoon in a city she hates, I was hooked.
In October, You Must Read This covered Gerbrand Bakker's IMPAC Dublin-winning, marvelous gay/bi Dutch novel The Twin [Kindle
A movie adaptation of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You premiered at the Rome Film Festival last month and is scheduled to open in Italy in February. It stars Toby Regbo, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher, Lucy Liu, and Stephen Lang. Elisa sings "Love Is Requited" from the soundtrack.
Powerful! Thanks for posting.
Posted by: D | December 29, 2011 at 06:27 PM
Sadly, the movie appears to have been degayed.
According to the director the lead character
has been demoted from "gay" to "confused".
Posted by: calvin | December 30, 2011 at 02:16 PM