![]() ![]() I spoke with Schrag about ADAM, identity, the young adult genre, and what it takes to write a good sex scene. There’s more-and better-sex writing in this book than in just about any other I can think of. (You really just need to read it.) Schrag writes with humor and pathos and an unflinching look at the complicated realities that surround us all as we set to the simultaneously monumental and mundane task of figuring out who we are and who we want to be. ![]() ![]() And she does this through the lens of a 17-year-old heterosexual male who passes as a trans man in order to get the lesbian girl of his dreams. Schrag-an acclaimed writer and cartoonist, whose graphic memoirs also fall into the essential reading camp-tackles issues of identity and sexuality, the things that make us all individuals, the things that make us all human. Ariel Schrag’s debut novel, ADAM, is one of those books. There are books that you read and know will stay with you forever-books that you give to your friends so that they can talk about them too, that you wish more than anything you could have given to your younger self. ![]()
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