Falling for Max
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Last published Tue, Mar 22, 2022
Thomas Johnson comes from a religious family. Thomas has certain expectations of him. He is respectful and kind. He goes to church every Sunday with his family. He gets good grades. A star student and a future valedictorian. His parents plan him to go to an Ivy League college and study business, get a good-paying job, marry a lovely woman and have children. A beautiful woman for marrying a man is wrong.
Max Jamison comes from a dysfunctional family. Since his wife left, his father has been an abusive alcoholic, and his son came out as gay. Max has to work multiple jobs to keep afloat. He is failing school; his grades are dangerously low. He wants nothing more than to graduate and leave this town and his father behind. But, with all of his failing grades, he is in danger of not being able to graduate. So, when the principal offers to enroll him in the tutoring program, he has no choice but to accept.
How will a willing Thomas work with an openly homosexual like Max? How will Thomas deal with his past when Max keeps reminding him? How will Max deal with Thomas constantly being homophobic and urging him to go to church? Will they work out their differences and come together, or will they tear each other apart?
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