If I Was Your Girl

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Since we can see Amanda as any high school girl in any high school romance coming of age story we can see Amanda as just that, any girl. I’m so relieved that they used an actual trans girl for the cover model because there’s enough erasure to go around with Hollywood casting cis people to play trans characters left and right. On the more positive side, Amanda’s life isn’t all doom and gloom, the story of the tragic trans person. So my criticism isn’t necessarily against the author individually as it is against the industry that favors this kind of narrative for the spotlight.

You can feel the emotion in the readers voice like she's actively living it and the story… just fits.I would definitely recommend this as a place to start with LGBTQ books and just for anyone who likes YA romances. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and.

As the author put it in her note at the end of the book, Amanda is just an ordinary girl who happens to have a different medical history.This isn’t a book where Amanda’s trans-ness is but one aspect of her character and the plot is about other things (although I like those too). We pulled up in front of the Sartoris Dinner Car, an actual converted railroad car on a cinder-block foundation.