Thom, the teenage narrator of Perry Moore’s debut novel Hero, is a kid dealing with some serious issues. His mother apparently walked out on the family years before, his father is dealing with a crippling injury received in a mysterious incident that may or may not have been his own fault, and Thom is finding it increasingly difficult to hide his homosexuality from his father and classmates. The fact that he’s also just beginning to discover that he may have superhuman powers certainly doesn’t make his life any less complicated.
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