In 1976, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City began as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle relating the adventures of an eclectic group of residents at the fictional 28 Barbary Lane. When it was published as a book in 1978, Tales was an immediate cult favorite that quickly made its way into public consciousness...
In Akwaeke Emezi’s second novel (and their YA debut), teenage Jam lives in a utopian society, Lucille, where the adults got rid of the monsters before she was born. In Lucille, there exists an easy peace, and Jam has never worried about being accepted as trans...
In this romantic YA debut novel, Ben comes out to their parents as bisexual and nonbinary, and they are promptly thrown out of the house. Forced to live with their estranged older sister and her husband, who they barely know, Ben decides to keep their feelings and identities locked in, only opening up to their therapist...