Adam Paperback - 2014
by Schrag, Ariel
- Used
The sweet and subversive debut novel by award-winning memoirist and screenwriter Ariel Schrag. Sometimes a queer girl summer in New York is just what a straight boy needs.
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Details
- Title Adam
- Author Schrag, Ariel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Boston, Massachusetts
- Date 2014-06-10
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ026XBA_ns
- ISBN 9780544142930 / 0544142934
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.34 x 0.86 in (20.78 x 13.56 x 2.18 cm)
- Reading level 770
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013045641
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
Summary
It is the Summer of 2006—the year of gay marriage demonstrations and the rise of transgender rights—and Casey has thrust herself into New York’s fringe lesbian, sexual, and political scene. Accustomed to being a social misfit, Adam now finds himself part of a wild subculture complete with underground clubs, drinking, and friendly women who take a surprisingly intense interest in him. It takes some time for him to realize many in this new crowd assume he is transgendered—a boy who was born a girl—or else why would he always be around? But then he meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams. If only she weren’t a lesbian! And if only she didn’t believe he was really (sort of) a girl.
Ariel Schrag’s scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it takes to be at home in your own skin.
From the publisher
From the rear cover
When Adam Freedman a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure does.
It is the summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rights are in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbian subculture. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there are hot older women everywhere he turns. It takes some time for him to realize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans a boy who was born a girl. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around?
Then Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams but she couldn t possibly be interested in him. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work in his favor . . .
Ariel Schrag s scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it takes to be at home in your own skin.
The sexual revolution is over and Ariel Schrag has won. Adam is the most twisted, hilarious, and deeply gratifying reading experience I have had in a long time." Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Are You My Mother?
Schrag s frisky debut . . . [is] one of the most original coming-of-age stories of recent years. Publishers Weekly
Hysterically funny and deliciously precise . . . Schrag writes as elegantly about sex parties as she does about the complicated emotions of awkwardness. Nico Muhly, composer of Two Boys
Ariel Schrag grew up in Berkeley, California. She is the author of the graphic memoirs Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, and has written for television series for HBO and Showtime. Adam is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Author photograph (c) Chloe Aftel
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/01/2014, Page 76
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2014, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 03/10/2014, Page 0
- SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens, 12/01/2014, Page 32
