The Art of being Normal book review

Eh. It’s an ok book.

Don’t get me wrong, I read this in three days, but it’s not really the best representation of trans people personally. I don’t think it is a bad book, but this story isn’t Lisa’s to tell. I don’t think that the author had bad intentions writing it, but I don’t think it was expressed the best that it could have been. First off, It was interesting to read. It was very easy to get through and I personally thought the characters were very interesting at first. The more I got into the book however, the more I started skipping long passages and going “ok yeah, sure”. It was certainly captivating, I love stories that revolve around transness and the discussion of transness to be a very important topic. But this was not the book to communicate it. It felt like the book was not meant for trans teenagers. It felt like it was meant to explain transness to cis adults. For being a book about rejecting the ordinary and doing what you want, it’s quite funny how the characters fit in a perfect binary, because of course the girls get pink and skirt while the guys get blue and stuff. Also the use of the T slur was very strange because of the fact that the writer isn’t trans from what I can tell, so it doesn’t feel right coming from her mouth.

Overall a 3/5 book