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Sebastian Ritscher |
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TOO BRIGHT TO SEE
It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare.
For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug. Besides, there's something more important to worry about: A ghost is haunting Bug's eerie old house in rural Vermont...and maybe haunting Bug in particular. As Bug begins to untangle the mystery of who this ghost is and what they're trying to say, an altogether different truth comes to light--Bug is transgender.
Told in a singular, lyrical voice, this novel is at once spine-tinglingly spooky and achingly real.
Key selling points:
A unique ghost story: The spirits that Bug--but no one else, really--can see work as a really wonderful analogy for his trans identity, and his burgeoning awareness of it.
Not a typical coming-out story: Before you come out to others, you must come out to yourself. This novel centers that journey and destabilizes the idea that all trans people have an innate knowledge of their identity from a very young age.
An author on the rise: Kyle Lukoff is the author of the immensely well-reviewed picture books A Storytelling of Ravens and When Aidan Became a Brother, which won a Stonewall Book Award. He is also the author of the forthcoming groundbreaking Max and Friends series.
While becoming a writer, he worked as a bookseller and school librarian. He lives in New York City.
Told in a singular, lyrical voice, this novel is at once spine-tinglingly spooky and achingly real.
Key selling points:
A unique ghost story: The spirits that Bug--but no one else, really--can see work as a really wonderful analogy for his trans identity, and his burgeoning awareness of it.
Not a typical coming-out story: Before you come out to others, you must come out to yourself. This novel centers that journey and destabilizes the idea that all trans people have an innate knowledge of their identity from a very young age.
An author on the rise: Kyle Lukoff is the author of the immensely well-reviewed picture books A Storytelling of Ravens and When Aidan Became a Brother, which won a Stonewall Book Award. He is also the author of the forthcoming groundbreaking Max and Friends series.
While becoming a writer, he worked as a bookseller and school librarian. He lives in New York City.
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Published 2021-04-20 by Dial Books for Young Readers |