Sprout Bradford has a secret. It's not what you think. He'll tell you he's gay. He'll tell you about his dad's drinking and his mother's death. And the green fingerprints everywhere tell you when he last dyed his hair. At times hilarious, at times heart-breaking, this is the story of a boy at odds with the expected.
When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to the midst of rural Kansas after the death of his mother, he is sure he will find no friends, no love, no beauty. But friends find him, the strangeness of the landscape fascinates him, and when love shows up in an unexpected place, Sprout realises that Kansas is not quite as empty as he thought it was going to be.
Subverting stereotypes and packed with humour, Sprout is an incredible coming of age story about a boy who knows he is gay in a town that seems to have no place to hide.
