- Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, LGBTQ gender identity, Lambda Literary Awards
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Zeyn Joukhadar
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Atria Books, Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781982121525
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