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[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

OP, any chance you can provide some choice quotes from the book?

I read the summary and cringed. It's obviously very geared towards youth, but this reminded just how far away from my own youth that these novels and influences are now:

Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.

YA novels in my day (as a female, won't speak for males) were about girls experiencing puberty, peer pressure, body-shaming, cliques and friendship, perhaps coming to terms with their own early-blossoming sexuality ... those sorts of things. Talking about our actual experiences in age-appropriate ways, and not a damn thing about the politicized issues of adults.

Based on what you've described, this book is so much propaganda towards children that it shouldn't even exist, let alone be awarded.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I keep coming across propaganda books for teens and YA, and it's really sickening. The name escapes me now (something with perfect in the title) but there's a book that's just come out about a lesbian who plays Romeo in a school play, but the thing is...she actually feels like a Romeo rather than a Juliet. The cover has some pretty insidious messages too, because the way the character is drawn is straight up male, even though she hasn't had any hormones, surgery, zilch. Playing male roles in plays ≠ being trans actually.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There was an interesting article in The Critic about how Young Adult fiction is basically all just woke propaganda at this point.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That was a really good read. I remember the Jackson controversy, and one thing they didn't mention was how authors had to 'come out' to prove that they were #ownvoices writers, as was the case with Becky Albertalli.

[–]julesburm1891[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This article is so painfully accurate. YA is absolutely falling apart because of this bullshit. The authors causing the problem are trying to migrate into children’s and middle grade fiction with zero self awareness that people don’t want to read their propaganda.