"You have to read this." * --Rainbow Rowell, bestselling author of Eleanor & ParkIn his follow-up to tthe New York Times bestselling author of * Every Day,andDavid Levithan, coauthor of bestsellers Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green) and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist * ...

"You have to read this." * --Rainbow Rowell, bestselling author of Eleanor & ParkIn his follow-up to tthe New York Times bestselling author of * Every Day,andDavid Levithan, coauthor of bestsellers Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green) and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist * (with Rachel Cohn),crafts a novel that the Los Angeles Times * calls "open, frank, and ultimately optimistic." Based on true events--and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS--Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teens dealing with universal questions of love, identity, and belonging. Named to the National Book Award Longlist

A Lambda Literary Award Winner

A Stonewall Honor Book "An intriguing, complex narrative with an unusual point of view... and] a quality of retrospection that is rare (and refreshing) in YA literature." --* The Washington Post*