Arden Grey

Arden Grey
Ray Stoeve
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Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 288pg
28 Apr 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781419746000
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Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey is struggling. Her mother has left their family, her father and her younger brother won' t talk about it, and a classmate, Tanner, keeps harassing her about her sexuality-which isn' t even public. (She knows she likes girls romantically, but she thinks she might be asexual. ) At least she' s got her love of film photography and her best and only friend, Jamie, to help her cope. Then Jamie, who is trans, starts dating Caroline, and suddenly he isn' t so reliable. Arden' s insecurity about their friendship grows. She starts to wonder if she' s jealous or if Jamie' s relationship with Caroline is somehow unhealthy-and it makes her reconsider how much of her relationship with her absent mom wasn' t okay, too. Filled with big emotions, first loves, and characters navigating toxic relationships, Ray Stoeve' s honest and nuanced novel is about finding your place in the world and seeking out the love and community that you deserve.
"Readers will see that Arden is on a painstaking path to a better her, and there are a lot of promising signs that she' ll get there. "-- "The Bulletin of the Center for Children' s Books" "Refreshingly, all the conflict involves realistic interpersonal dynamics, with transphobia and other oppressions taking a back seat. The patient unraveling of Arden' s friendships and relationships, as well as the neatly wrapped up resolution, feels simultaneously expected and deeply satisfying, and while neither of the abusers is given much complexity, the depictions of the dynamics involved can help readers identify toxic relationships in their own lives. " -- "Kirkus Reviews"
Ray Stoeve is the author of the young adult novel Between Perfect and Real, which was a 2021 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. They also contributed to the young adult anthology Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance. They received a 2016-2017 Made at Hugo House Fellowship and created the YA/MG Trans and Nonbinary Voices Masterlist, a database that tracks all books in those age categories written by trans authors about trans characters. When they' re not writing, they can be found gardening, making art in other mediums, or hiking their beloved Pacific Northwest.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781419746000
Published: 28 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Amulet Books
Publisher: Abrams
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 288

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