The Grounding of Group 6 I will get a small comission if you clicky the link and buy. So one of my favorite books of all time is The Grounding of group 6 by Julian F. Thompson. It was one of the first books i'd read that acknowledged certain "progressive" parents could value being seen that way more than their children. It's a bitter, extremely weird satire that probably shouldn't be as funny as it is and i probably one of my favorite "found family" stories ever. BUT Somebody mention "gay panic" in reference to this book and i'll be honest! I never read it that way. And it makes me feel really weird and an uncomfortable that I never noticed that take even though the character involved, Coke, pretty blatantly uses a homophobic slur when recounting the event to his mother. Which I had somehow completely forgotten anout. YIKES! Now, was McCorker gay or "just" a child predator and there's no homophobic agenda in this book?