The Sweet In-Between
by Sheri Reynolds
More lit than I expected, and not at all young adult. I shouldn't have listened to the front cover, or the back cover, or the blurb, or the other reviews---Kenny's gender identity is still nebulous, but definitely somewhere on the transmasculine spectrum. Despite all the icky wrappings, Kenny's experiences and identity are very respectfully handled in the actual story. As people become more knowledgeable about trans issues, I've been hoping for a new wave of complicated literary stories about people's complicated literary gender identities, and this is a great contribution to that budding genre.
Unfortunately, I was hoping for a bit more of a plot. It's ~lit~ though; what can you expect.