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Reel Around the Fountain is a queer coming-of-age novel about music, mythmaking, and the burden of being the day everything changed.

"Jackson handles painful material with an earthy, observant sense of humor." - Literary Titan

"Reel Around the Fountain has echoes of Justin Torres’s We the Animals and Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain, particularly in its portrayals of queer adolescence, working-class families, and imperfectly expressed love." - Independent Book Review