A Stonewall Honor Book
From Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.
Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.
When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle....
But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.
Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve.
石牆榮譽書
石牆和拉姆達文學獎獲獎作家 Kacen Callender 出版了一本具有啟發性的青少年小說,講述一個跨性別青少年在第一次墜入愛河時努力應對身份和自我發現的故事。
菲利克斯·拉夫從未談過戀愛—是的,他痛苦地意識到這種諷刺意味。他非常想知道那是什麼樣子,以及為什麼除了他之外的每個人都這麼容易找到一個人。更糟糕的是,儘管他為自己的身份感到自豪,但菲利克斯也暗自擔心自己是一個被邊緣化的人—黑人、酷兒和變性人—永遠無法擁有自己的幸福。
一位匿名學生開始向他發送恐變性者訊息--張貼菲利克斯的舊名和公開他變身前的照片--菲利克斯想出了一個報復計劃。他沒想到的是:他的網路假名讓他陷入了一場三角戀情…
但是,當他帶著複雜的情感探索時,菲利克斯開始了質疑和自我發現的旅程,幫助他重新定義他最重要的關係:他的自我感受。
本書呈現誠實且多層次的故事,有關身份、墜入愛河和承認你應得的愛。
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