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Emma Donoghue,David Levithan,Julie Anne Peters,Francesca Lia Block,Jennifer Finney Boylan,Eric Shanower,Michael Cart,Ron Koertge,William Sleater

How Beautiful the Ordinary

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A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had “an accidental romance.” And a forgotten mother writes a poignant letter to the teenage daughter she hasn't seen for fourteen years.
Poised between the past and the future are the stories of now. In nontraditional narratives, short stories, and brief graphics, tales of anticipation and regret, eagerness and confusion present distinctively modern views of love, sexuality, and gender identification. Together, they reflect the vibrant possibilities available for young people learning to love others—and themselves—in today's multifaceted and quickly changing world.
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220 printed pages
Publication year
2009
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Quotes

  • Fiorella Marín Hidalgohas quoted5 years ago
    We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

    That’s all we ask of you: Make more than dust
  • Fiorella Marín Hidalgohas quoted5 years ago
    Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
  • Fiorella Marín Hidalgohas quoted5 years ago
    It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

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