Name: Adam
ISBN: 9780544142930

Ariel Schrag

During the summer of 2006, California high school student Adam Freedman is sent to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City where she introduces him to a wild, lesbian subculture complete with underground clubs, drinking and a new crowd who assumes he is transgendered. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Adam

azliana aziz

oh wow. this book is a revelation to me. really a lot of the stuff in this book is not something i would be willing to google or anything. but first thing first, i am not a homophobic. its just that the subject of transgender does not take up my interest. however reading this, schrag's witty, sharp and clever rendition i could stomach everything and more importantly i care for all the characters. i understand why, what, how etc. and adam freedman, he could be such an obnoxious, idiotic, unlikeable seventeen year old but i could not help to root for him and smile for him when i reach the ending of the book. and ethan, oh how i have a soft spot for him.

Daryl Houston

The book made me uncomfortable because it made me feel weird about what it means to be a non-trans person thinking about trans people as trans people rather than just as people. I'd be really curious to learn how the book reads to trans folk. There were some funny bits and some fairly poignant bits but mostly it read to me like young-adult literature with more swear words and more explicit sex. Even the funny and poignant bits were hard to take in, since as a cis person, it's hard even to know whether I'm allowed to read a thing as funny or poignant or whether even those readings -- sympathetic as they are -- constitute a sort of appropriation by a person of privilege. I can't and wouldn't use certain racial epithets, for example, while it's acceptable for members of the groups they've historically been applied to to use them. Is it ok, then, for me to partake in the sort of behind-the-curtain view of the world that this book purports to give glimpses of while not belonging quite to that part of its world? Probably I should just read books instead of thinking about thinking about what thinking about the reading of them means.

Adam

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