Strangely, Thom heals Goran's injury by touching his leg over the compound fracture. Thom is thrown off his game and Goran ends up breaking one of his legs. It turns out that actually Goran is the person who started the reading program a few years before.ĭuring a basketball game, Thom recognizes one of the players from the opposing team as Goran. Thom mistakes Goran for a student because of his strong accent, accidentally offending him. After an incident during a reading session, he is moved to another class where he meets a young man named Goran. He becomes a tutor for children with reading and language disorders at the community center, and often reads to his students. Thom is filled with teen-aged angst because he is gay and knows that his father greatly disapproves of homosexuality. His mother abandoned the family several years ago, and his father Hal, a publicly disgraced ex-superhero, is now a lowly factory worker. Thom Creed is a 16-year-old high school basketball star, who has a tendency to get into trouble. The fantasy novel is about a teenage superhero, Thom Creed, who must deal with his ex-superhero father's disgrace, his own sexuality, and a murderer stalking the world's heroes. Hero is a 2007 Lambda-winning novel, and the only novel by openly gay film producer and novelist Perry Moore.
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