Dade is a loner whose only friend is Pablo Soto, a Mexican American who is Cedarville high school's star quarterback for the football team. Ned, too, is alienated from his family, and has begun taking poetry classes at a local community college. She is increasingly alienated from her upper middle class lifestyle and family. For several years, Peggy has struggled with depression, and is taking a large number of antidepressants. They live in Cedarville, a fictional city in Iowa. His father, Ned, sells luxury automobiles and his mother, Peggy, is an art teacher at a local Roman Catholic parochial school.
Dade has come out gay to himself, but not anyone else. He has a part-time job at Food World, a local supermarket. ĭade Hamilton is 18 years old and trying to enjoy the summer after his high school graduation. Cummings: "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." The quote is taken from the essay "A Poet's Advice to Students," which appeared in the book E. One of their songs is used in a TV commercial, and the girl misquotes the lyrics as "the vast fields of ordinary." The novel is prefaced with a quote from the poet and playwright E. The fictional band, Vas Deferens, is the favorite band of the main character. The title comes from a line in the novel in which a young girl misquotes a line from an alternative rock band. The novel is told in the first person singular. On the basis of this novel, Out named author Nick Burd to the "OUT 100," a list of 100 people who made important contributions to LGBTQ culture and politics in 2009. The New York Times listed it as one of the most notable books of 2009. Booklist added the novel to its Rainbow List 2010, a bibliography of young adult books which include significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning content. The book won the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature. The Vast Fields of Ordinary is Burd's debut novel.
The novel depicts the summer after high school graduation for a closeted suburban teenage boy, his openly lesbian new best friend, and the two boys he is interested in dating (one a Latino football star, the other a drug dealer). The Vast Fields of Ordinary is a young adult gay novel by American author Nick Burd first published in 2009.
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