‘Lisa Williamson really understands what it’s like to be a teenager in the modern age’
I was thrilled to receive a copy of The Art of Being Normal after winning a Guardian children’s books site competition, as I’d wanted to read it for ages and had a feeling that I would absolutely love it. I wasn’t wrong.
A sad but true fact is that I have never read a book with a transgender main character until The Art of Being Normal. In fact, it’s the only YA mainstream book I’ve seen with a transgender main character. Hopefully, with books such as this one, we will begin to grow out of the default straight, white, cisgender characters that dominate the shelves and expand the horizons of YA diversity, which has been happening more and more in recent times.
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