Are We There Yet? by David Levithan
Despite reading the blurb on the back of the book, I thought this involved a road trip. I was wrong on that account. It is a story about two brothers, Danny and Elijah, who are tricked into a trip to Italy by their parents. Apparently, Mom and Dad have noticed that their sons aren't as involved in each others' lives as they want them to be. There is an age gap of either seven or ten years (I don't remember) which would account for them not being that close, but I know as people grow older, that gap doesn't matter much.
At any rate, these two brothers are in Italy. They start out in Venice, and it is so obvious that they have next to nothing in common. They hardly talk, and Danny spends a good deal of time in the hotel sleeping. Separately, they both meet a girl named Julia. Elijah is smitten with her, and Danny turns down her advances.
By the time they head to Rome, the brothers travel separately. It takes running into an old friend from summer camp for Danny to realize he needs to repair his relationship with his brother. I wish there had been more of that in the book. It was an ok book, but I think it could have been better if we saw more than a day's worth of the brothers being brothers.
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