The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Overall, a welcome mirror for gender-fluid teens and a helpful introduction for others. Riley's family relationships and growing friendships, however, are vibrantly imagined, and the panic attacks are well-illustrated. Both the blog's instant popularity and the media emphasis on Riley's role in Andie's story ring false, and the book's insistence that transgender and gender-fluid teens should all come out seems less than carefully reasoned. After just a couple of posts, Riley gains a massive following, and Andie Gingham, a trans girl in crisis, reaches out to Riley for advice. Ann, the therapist Riley started seeing after a suicide attempt, Riley starts a personal blog. But Riley's arrival attracts attention both negative-a popular girl calls Riley "it"-and positive-two misfit students offer friendship and maybe more. Cavanaugh's education-reformer image, Riley's plan is to dress androgynously and try to blend in. Riley Cavanaugh, whose father is a prominent politician in a conservative Southern California county, navigates being gender fluid and experiencing panic attacks.įor Riley, being gender fluid means that "some days I wake up feeling more 'boy' and some days I wake up feeling more 'girl.' And some days, I wake up feeling somewhere in between." When Riley starts attending public school, in part to escape bullying and in part to boost Sen.
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