The Sunflower Boys: A Novel

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE MASS BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

"That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment…" —Washington Post

A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine.

In many ways, twelve-year-old Artem’s life in Chernihiv, Ukraine, is normal. He s...