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Release date
July 19, 2016 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781666605693
- File size: 57064 KB
- Duration: 01:58:52
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 460
- Text Difficulty: 1-2
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Reviews
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AudioFile Magazine
This graphic novel memoir makes a successful transition to audio because of its talented ensemble cast. It opens in Boston in 1986. Four-year-old Liz Prince is mid-temper-tantrum because she's been asked to wear a dress. Her fit is more evocative and dramatic because of the concern expressed by her loving parents. Excellent timing and a sense of connection among cast members continue through vignettes that skip from age 2 to adolescence. All scenes are so specific in detail and emotions that they convey honestly, uniquely, and sometimes painfully Prince's experiences with gender stereotyping. Both the duress and the triumph of standing up to prejudice and cultural mores are illuminated as Prince attempts to understand herself and the world at the same time. The narrator links all the scenes with an expansive range of humor, hurt, and revelatory statements. S.W. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine -
Publisher's Weekly
October 6, 2014
Comics creator Prince (Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?) makes her YA debut with a candid graphic memoir about growing up resisting all forms of girliness. Early on, Liz's family supports her wardrobe choices (blazers and baseball caps) and her interest in Little League; her schoolmates are merely puzzled. When she arrives at middle school, though, the pressure starts to build. Girlfriends whose sexuality is beginning to develop leave her behind or use her as a prop, and boys bully her relentlessly: "Loser dykes spotted in the wild!" Liz resists becoming a sexual being, and Prince's artwork resists sexuality, too; the cast is a series of endearing, childlike figures (even when they're smoking). A running visual expresses Liz's attempts to negotiate predetermined gender roles by marking out a figure that resists the standard bathroom-door symbols for "male" and "female." Prince's most important revelationâthat in dressing like a boy, "I subscribed to the idea that there was only one form of femininity and that it was inferior to being a man"âgives readers space to question their own acquiescence to gender stereotypes. Ages 14âup.
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Formats
- OverDrive Listen audiobook
Languages
- English
Levels
- Lexile® Measure:460
- Text Difficulty:1-2
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