5/22/2023 0 Comments Girl Next Door by Alyssa Brugman![]() Since 2004, when Julie Anne Peters published Luna, a novel about a young woman’s relationship with her transgender sister, there has been a small but significant explosion of YA literature with transgender themes. Today’s trans youth, however, can see themselves in contemporary fiction. ![]() Since I’m now a trans man, I can give credit to other cultural forces for that. What the YA novels of my generation never did was make me lie awake questioning my gender identity. After nights reading Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic (1988) or Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars (1989), I’d lie awake wondering if I had it in me to give my last potato to my starving mother, or to run for the barbed wire and risk being shot. ![]() ![]() THE YOUNG ADULT NOVELS of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I grew up, did not particularly reflect my life experience. ![]()
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