Starred critiques from Publishers Weekly and Booklist * YALSA TOP Quick Go with for Hesitant Readers * ALA Best Fiction for ADULTS List * 2017 Rainbow

A sharply honest and moving debut ideal for fans from the Perks to be a Wallflower and Ask the Passengers.

Riley Cavanaugh is usually many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a woman. But Riley isn’t specifically out however. And between beginning a new college and getting a congressman about Symptoms of Being Human father working for reelection in über-conservative Orange State, the pressure-media and otherwise-is accumulating in Riley’s life.

Around the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the reality of what it’s enjoy to be always a gender fluid teenager. And Riley’s needs to negotiate in at school-even developing emotions for a mystical outcast-the blog will go viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley’s actual identity, threatening exposure. And Riley must bother making a choice: walk away from what the blog has created-a lifeline, brand-new friends, a reason to trust in-or operate, turn out, and risk everything.

From debut author Jeff Garvin comes a robust and uplifting family portrait of a modern teen fighting high school, associations, and what this means to be always a person.