Jack is a typical seventeen year-old going to high school in Queensland. He surfs, fixes up cars, plays footy with his mates and is having trouble with girls. Only one problem Jack has a hole in the middle of his chest pectus excavatum (PE). Jack becomes increasingly paranoid about his PE. When his feelings for a girl change and he cant understand what it all means he ends up isolating himself from the girl and his best friend, Gez.
Shane Thamm wrote My Private Pectus while studying masculinities at Queensland University of Technology. After six years working in high school outdoor education, and the masculinised outdoor adventure industry, he became intimately interested in what makes young men tick, and the emotional challenges they negotiate each day, often in silence. He likes to give these boys a voice.