I'll Give you the Sun

Nelson, Jandy. (2015). I’ll give you the sun. Speak.

Noah and Jude are fraternal twins who grow up in a stable home until they turn 13 when things change. Noah is an artist and gay and meets a model Oscar. He also meets a new kid that he has a crush on named Brian.  Jude is interesting in the popular crowd, makeup and clothes.  Noah and Jude learn their mother is having an affair and plans on leaving their father only to die off a cliff as she was preparing to take him divorce papers. Things change for the twins at 16 when Jude is accepted into an art school and Noah attends public school. Jude mentors with a sculptor who turns out to be the man her mom had an affair with.  He also mentors another student Oscar and he is dealing with the loss of his mother. Noah has been diving off cliffs thinking his mother is guiding him down safely and is saved by Oscar. The family reconnects and decides to live on a houseboat. Noah also openly acknowledges he is gay and his father accepts his son. Everything comes together in the story which seemed complex in the beginning.