The Art of Being Normal

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Heroes Love Dogs: Applies to Leo, who momentarily drops the tough guy act when he meets Kate's dog Phil.

Maybe Ever After: Alicia unexpectedly shows up to Leo's house on Boxing Day to apologize to him, and he agrees to start over as friends. Jerkass Has a Point: Leo's jaded mother isn't wrong to warn her children that life isn't always fair, but could go about it in a different manner. She definitely wasn't lying about the twins' father abandoning her.David y Leo son dos adolescentes que empiezan el instituto con grandes secretos: David quiere ser una chica, y Leo fue expulsado de su anterior instituto por un turbio asunto del que solo corren rumores. Jade-Colored Glasses: Leo's mother has these on at all times. Ironically, she plays a lot of bingo. Me ha gustado muchísimo poder leer al fin una novela que trate el tema de la transexualidad. Si bien es cierto que últimamente algunas editoriales apuestan por los conflictos de la orientación sexual, esta es la primera novela que puedo leer con un protagonista transexualidad. La comunidad LGTBI* no está para nada asumida en la literatura, y si bien la comunidad gay es la más normalizada en la misma; la transexualidad sigue siendo un tema marginal. Evidentemente, no ya en la literatua, sino en la sociedad actual.

Pero, sobre todo, me ha gustado que esté dirigido a un público juvenil. He tenido con este libro la misma sensación que tuve en su momento con La lección de August: que debería ser obligatorio, imprescindible. Con el tiempo, La lección de August ha sido lectura obligatoria en muchos colegios, El arte de ser normal debería serlo también. From here on, there will be some spoilers, but honestly, you probably don't want to read this book after you've read my review so does it really matter? You decide.An amazing step forward in diversity in publishing, not such a step forward in engrossing storytelling. This is the end of the spoiler section! What comes next are very minor spoilers that have nothing to do with the plot. That’s too bad,” Livvy says with zero sympathy. “Dad, how many people did I have at my birthday party?” Disappeared Dad : Leo has never met his birth father, and believes his mother drove him away. He's wrong.

Besides, who wants to be normal anyway? Fancy that on your gravestone. ‘Here lies so-and-so. They were entirely normal.’” Make a wish!” Mum says. She has the cake tipped at an angle so I won’t notice it’s wonky. It says Happy Birthday David! in bloodred icing across the top, the day in Birthday scrunched up where she must have run out of room. Fourteen blue candles form a circle around the edge of the cake, dripping wax in the buttercream. The Art of Being Normal is Lisa Williamson’s 2018 novel about two transgender students, Leo Denton and David Piper. On Leo’s first day at his new school, he has one goal: to keep his head low and not draw any attention to himself. Catching the eye of the most beautiful girl in the class is definitely not part of Leo’s plan, particularly because he is a transgender male and is not out at his new school. When Leo stands up for a classmate, David, in a fight, the two become fast friends. David is a transgender girl who has not come out either. With Leo’s support, David prepares to transition and come out as Kate. An uplifting story of two transgender teens trying to live a truth that has been a secret for too long, The Art of Being Normal takes a thought-provoking look at gender identity and what it means to be transgender. I also would of liked to know a little more about Leo's mother and 'her side of the story' when it came down to Leo's father and what happened. I would of liked to see how it changed the dynamic between Leo and his mother. Apart from that, I thought the characters all played their parts well, especially David's mother who I thought was particularly well written.Two boys. Two secrets. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he’s gay. The school bully thinks he’s a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth – David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal – to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in year eleven is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long… The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson – eBook Details What David wants, more than anything, is to be a girl. But as he grows taller and more like his father, he wonders if this will ever be a possibility. No Name Given: Kate's father's name is never said, though her mother's name is Jo. Similarly Leo's father Jimmy/Jonathan's name is brought up frequently, but his mother's name (Samantha) only finally shows up in the second half of the book. Birthday Hater: Kate, whose fourteenth birthday is when begins the story proper. Each birthday only serves as a reminder that she is running out of time before she starts going through puberty, which would make it more difficult for her to physically pass as female. A young adult novel about two transgender teens who figure out how to navigate life with help from each other.

Just like in Simon, in this book it is about a diversity character, in this case a trans, but without the book being written in a learny way. You get to know David and you learn what it's like to be trapped in the wrong body because he is. Lisa Williamson's The Art of Being Normal is a moving, well-written reminder of how brutal, yet how beautiful, the world can be to those who are different. UNA NOVELA REAL, CERCANA Y QUE ABORDA EL TEMA DE LA TRANSEXUALIDAD DE MANERA SUBLIME. IMPRESCINDIBLE. Anger Born of Worry: Aunt Kerry gives Leo a slap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after having been missing for two days.I really didn’t like the constant misgendering and use of the name David when Kate chose the name Kate for herself. The book’s blurb, and reviewers are doing this and it makes me really uncomfortable. David is not the character’s preferred name – it’s Kate. And Kate’s pronouns are female, not male. So to have Kate constantly misgendered, and her own chapters titled “David” made me squirm, because I feel like there was no respect for Kate in terms of her name or pronouns.