- Children's fiction, LGBTQ young adult, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ gender identity
Felix Love has never been *in* love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle.... But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Kacen Callender
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 361
- Publisher
- Desrotina, Faber & Faber, Limited, Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781536474435
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