Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You by Peter Cameron. James Sveck is 18 years old and enrolled in Brown for the Fall term; however, New Yorker James does not want to attend college instead he wants to buy a house in the Midwest and read the Classics. He is a loner who doesn't really fit in. He is different and doesn't like other people especially people his own age and following a disastrous experience with a national student seminar in Washington D.C., he concludes that he is better off alone.

This book is a wonderful coming of age novel in which James struggles with his sexual preferences and what he wants from the future. At times it is difficult to like James as he tells his story, but still I hoped that he would discover his way and his place in the world.