Felix Ever After
by Kacen Callender
Black. Trans. Never been in love. This is the summer that changes.
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you are still figuring out who you are and need a book that says that is exactly the right place to be at your age
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Felix Love is a seventeen-year-old Black trans boy who has never been in love and is starting to worry he never will be. When someone posts his deadname and pre-transition photos in the school hallway, he decides to get revenge — which leads him into a complicated anonymous texting relationship and a summer of figuring out who he actually is. Callender writes about transness, Blackness, and the specific anxiety of being someone who is still becoming themselves with warmth and directness. The most accessible trans YA novel on this shelf — the one that meets readers where they are rather than where the conversation has gotten to.
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- North America
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