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Between Perfect and Real

A Novel

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Pub Date Apr 27 2021 | Archive Date Apr 13 2021

ABRAMS Kids | Amulet Books

Teens & YA

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Ray Stoeve’s Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and himself.
 
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
 
Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian—including his girlfriend, Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo. He wonders if maybe it would be easier to wait until college to come out.
 
But as he plays Romeo every day in rehearsals, Dean realizes he wants everyone to see him as he really is now––not just on the stage, but everywhere in his life. Dean knows what he needs to do. Can playing a role help Dean be his true self?
 
“Perfectly captures the roller-coaster ride of being a queer high school senior.  Stoeve gives voice to the heartbreaks and triumphs of regular kid life in that time when we’re all trying to figure out who we’ve been, who we are, and who we want to be. A beautiful read.” —Daisy Eagan, writer and Tony Award–winning actor
Ray Stoeve’s Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and himself.
 
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
 
Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s...
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A Note From the Publisher

Ray Stoeve is a queer, nonbinary writer from Seattle. They received a 2016–2017 Made at Hugo House Fellowship for their young adult fiction. When they’re not writing, they can be found baking, gardening, making art in other mediums, or hiking their beloved Pacific Northwest. They live in an intentional community in Seattle with their partner and chosen family. This is their debut novel.

Ray Stoeve is a queer, nonbinary writer from Seattle. They received a 2016–2017 Made at Hugo House Fellowship for their young adult fiction. When they’re not writing, they can be found baking...

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ISBN 9781419746017
PRICE $18.99 (USD)
PAGES 304

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