Adam Paperback - 2014

Summary

From the rear cover

Ariel Schrag s book is a kind of Adam in Wonderland, with its young hero exploring worlds usually kept underground. An insightful, funny, and unexpected love story. Aimee Mann

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
A Mariner Paperback Original
MARINER
www.marinerbooks.com
$13.95
ISBN 978-0-544-14293-0
Fiction
0614/1546904
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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