Teen & Young Adult · Digital book

For Guys Like You

By Sikho

Dom Callahan is fourteen, a freshman, cut from the JV basketball team three weeks before this story opens — and nobody, not his exhausted ER-nurse mom, not his conflict-avoidant dad, not even his older sister Bree, has any idea how much it actually hurt. Then an algorithm hands him a video of a guy in a garage gym saying the exact thing Dom needed to hear: the guy you are in December isn't the guy you have to be in June. It's good advice. That's the whole trap. Months later, Dom is eating lunch with eleven guys who call themselves the Grindset, quoting a stranger named Kaius Marchetti in his sleep, and about to do something to a girl he's liked since seventh grade that he can't take back. Told in alternating chapters between Dom, drawn deeper into a 'self-improvement' pipeline that folds misogyny into fitness advice so gradually he never notices the seam, and Bree, watching her brother change in real time and not knowing what she's allowed to do about it, 'For Guys Like You' is grounded in real, current research — academic focus groups with teen boys, a Dublin university's 'misogyny sandwich' framework, real statistics on how fast this content spreads — and in the honest, unglamorous, non-linear work of finding a way back. This isn't a book about a monster. It's a book about a lonely freshman, the algorithm that found him first, and the family, counselor, and firefighter uncle who didn't give up on getting him back — three days at a time, one honest conversation at a time, long after the easy version of this story would have ended.

288 minutes estimated reading

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