Ziggi Stardast and I

Jonathan is sixteen years old. He loves to listen to rock music, ride a bicycle and chat with his girlfriend Starlo. But not everything goes smoothly in his life. At school, he is haunted by mockery and ridicule, his father gets drunk every evening to unconsciousness and in the whole world there is no one who could understand him. Thanks to the rich imagination, he can communicate with his beloved singer Siggy Stardast and feel free. But when he meets Web, he finally realizes that he no longer needs to hide in the world of fantasies.

The afterword of the psychologist Danila Gulyaeva is included in the Russian edition, in which he tells how people with non -traditional orientation live in Russia and gives advice on how to remain themselves if you are not like everyone else.

In the yard 1973. In Vietnam, the war is still raging. In the United States, homosexuality is persecuted by law.
The life of Jonathan resembles a pitch hell - they mock him at school, keep his uncle in a psychiatric hospital, and his father drinks disbelieving. The summer holidays will come soon, and his only friend will leave the city.
In order to hide from the surrounding pain and cruelty, he plunges into the world of his fantasies. Only there he can be himself and not be afraid of his desires, because homosexuality is considered a disease. Jonathan really wants to become
Normal, so he goes to painful procedures with an electric shock. But one day he meets Web, and friendship with him changes his life forever.

About the author:
James Brandon is one of the founders of the I Am Love campaign. His works are published in Huffington Post, Believed out loud and Spirituality and Health Magazine.

Reviews:
“A strong story that will catch you with a hurricane "Katrina". Suddenly, hard. It is important to read and write books about this. Be prepared to dissolve in the text like sugar - in a cup of hot tea. ” - Temur, YouTube Channel
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Non -mastic story about a magic boy with a lightning? On the forehead, holding the whole book in electric stress. She is about the confrontation of herself and the difficult path of acceptance, about love and hatred, about youth and difficulties
growing up that are somehow close to each reader. ” -Sasha, @sashhaered, Instagram blogger and books lover