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Felix Ever After
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9780062820266
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From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.
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.
Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve.
Felix is attending an ultracompetitive arts summer program to have a better shot at a full scholarship to Brown when someone posts Felix's dead name beside photos of him, pre-transition, in the school's lobby. Felix's plot to get revenge throws him onto the path of love and self-discovery. (Publishers Weekly, An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List)
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Callender, Kacen
- ISBN: 9780062820266
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.85
- Number Of Pages: 368
- Publication Year: 2021
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I only kind of liked this but everyone else loves it so idk
Monica D. - 5 years 6 months agoI only kind of like this.... and I hate to say that bc I love books with gender identity themes but I thought the main character was too much of a try hard and whiny and I feel bad for saying it but yeah I didn’t love it. But appreciate the authors perspective and always want to see more queer books! #SpringPicks
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Empowering, uplifting and romantic
Keia C. - 6 years 3 months agoI don’t even know how to put into words how much I loved this story. It’s empowering, uplifting, romantic as hell, at times heartbreaking, funny, and it took my emotions on a roller coaster ride. Felix is Black, queer and trans and feels like he may have one marginalization too many. Due to the images he’s seen on TV (and the ones he hasn’t) and his relationship with his mother, he feels like he’ll never be loved and may just be unlovable. When a classmate sets up a gallery using old pictures of him and his deadname he vows to get revenge. When he starts to fall for who he thinks is behind the pictures, everything in his life changes. Callender’s writing style is simple and straightforward which made this a super quick and easy read. I honestly couldn’t put it down because I was dying to know what would happen next and how it would end (and I’d just like to say I was VERY happy with how it ended). For such a short book, I was really impressed by how fleshed out all the side-characters felt. There were a lot of them, and I felt like we got a pretty good idea of who each of them were, and each of them served a different function. Most importantly though, the love story is EVERYTHING. It’s cute, it’s romantic, it’s swoonworthy, everything about it was perfect. I sat there reading with the biggest, dopiest grin on my face for most of the scenes. Shortly after finishing, I was already ready to re-read it and I’m currently ordering everything Kacen Callender has written. #SummerReading