Two Parties, One Tux, One Very Short Film about the Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman is a hilarious novel about the end of Mitchell's Junior year in high school. Mitchell and David are best friends. They do everything together; they are even taking a film-making class where they create Claymation-type films. But everything changes when David informs Mitchell that he is guy. Suddenly Mitchell doubt the direction his life is headed.
Although Mitchell has always been a good student, he decides not to read The Grapes of Wrath (a book that I love, by the way) and instead of writing the three page papers assigned by his English teacher, he turns in one of his film projects. Although the film is very short, it contains violence and nudity and causes Mitch's life to spin out of control. As a result he finds himself being called into the head master's office with a threat of suspension, dating one of the hottest girls in school, and trying to figure out what to do about David.
Michell's narrative shows his dry wit through his observations of the high school social scene and how he resides at the bottom of the social ladder. You will laugh as everything that can go wrong does and how Mitch deals with his life in a very humorous manner.
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