Title: The Girl He Used to Know
Author: Tracey Garvis Graves
Genre: Romance
Number of Pages: 291
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Turtle Under Ice
Author: Juleah del Rosario
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction/Books in Verse
Number of Pages: 268
Rating: C
Recommended?: No
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Title: This One Summer
Author: Mariko Tamaki
Illustrator: Jillian Tamaki
Genre: YA Graphic Novel
Number of Pages: 320
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: The Box Children
Author: Sharon Wyse
Number of Pages: 186
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/ Coming-of-Age
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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A young man takes his gay lover to meet his parents in the early months of their relationship, and plays his boyfriend off as being his roommate so as not to incite disapproval from his family. This is a short excerpt from a much longer project, which is almost entirely written in epistolary format.–
A gay, possibly mildly autistic man recounts his loving but enmeshed relationship with his mother, and her emotional reliance on him in the wake of her miscarriage. This is an piece from a 386-page manuscript I wrote this year, and you can find many other excerpts from the same manuscript on this blog, and short stories centering around the other characters in the project.—
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