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aroaessidhe · 10 months ago

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2024 reads / storygraph

Just Happy To Be Here

YA contemporary

a Indian-American trans girl at an all-girls school trying to make friends and get treated like any other girl at school

she also wants to get into the exclusive old-fashioned school sisterhood with a rumored scholarship, but is thrust into a larger argument about whether the club should exist at all

about just wanting to be a normal messy teen girl during the current rise of transphobic legislation in the US

#just happy to be here #naomi kanakia #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #Yeah this is pretty good! a complex and nuanced depiction of being a trans girl.#I definitely had to. take a deep breath with the very gen z teenage girl gossip friendship nonsense lmao. but it’s fine.#I feel like that and the plot about this sybils group is kinda silly in itself but obviously is there to serve the broader themes/narrative #about how trans girls are treated and the very real threats at the moment. The scene where the cps (?) person comes to her house is. pretty #horrifying. I also appreciated the extensive author’s note about this.#sapphic books #trans books #oh also I love the design choice for this cover. very different from the current trends.#photos can be used in meaningful ways in cover design i promise. it's not all the bad photoshop of the 2000s

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