Sweet Tooth: A Memoir
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Publication Year
2014
ISBN
9781477818077
Pages
319 pages
Genre
memoir
Format
full length
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
What's a sweets-loving young boy growing up gay in North Carolina in the eighties supposed to think when he's diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? That God is punishing him, naturally. This was, after all, when gay-hating Jesse Helms was his senator, AIDS was still the boogeyman, and no one was saying, "It gets better." And if stealing a copy of a gay porno magazine from the newsagent was a sin, then surely what the men inside were doing to one another was much worse. Sweet Tooth is Tim Anderson's uproarious memoir of life after his hormones and blood sugar both went berserk at the age of fifteen. With Morrissey and The Smiths as the soundtrack, Anderson self-deprecatingly recalls love affairs with vests and donuts, first crushes, coming out, and inaugural trips to gay bars. What emerges is the story of a young man trying to build a future that won't involve crippling loneliness or losing a foot to his disease--and maybe even one that, no matter how unpredictable, can still be pretty sweet.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Health Conditions; Gay/Lesbian; Illness; gay; gay teenager; same sex relationship; diabetes
Main Character
male teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
LGBTQ+
gay male
Awards
Rainbow List, 2015 Young Adult Non-Fiction
Keywords
North Carolina; in the closet; coming out; humor; music
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Anderson, Tim, "Sweet Tooth: A Memoir" (2014). Diverse Families. 1443.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1443