Witty and intelligent book about two gay men who are, much to their dismay, raising a drag queen!
Review
Sam and Ed are living the good life: happy, healthy, devoted to each other and their careers, they have no yearning for the joyful mysteries of parenthood. Sam is a chiropracter and Ed writes for a fancy Italian magazine. But when Julie, a junkie grilfriend of Sam's brother Billy dies, eleven-year-old Scot becomes an orphan. Ed and Sam are determined to make good on a wine-soaked promise made years before. With the best intentions, Sam and Ed hang a tire swing in the backyard and call the neighborhood school to arrange enrollment. Scot arrives just in time to start fifth grade--with a pair of lacy white socks and a marvelous plastic parasol in his duffel bag. It doesn't take Sam and Ed long to realize that Scot won't be trying out for the football team, drama is more his forte. He adores feather boas, wishes the house had better drapes, and douses himself in stinky perfumes. Spells of vertigo cause him to drop to the floor in panic, and the kids at school want to beat him up.
Breakfast with Scot is a fast-paced, comic novel with resonance for everyone, even this writer, who has little interest in children. The book is funny, a quick read and surprise - chock full of lessons for the child in all of us.
