Grl2grl 2: Blessings and Miracles
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Readers are immersed into the minds and hearts of lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gay, queer, and questioning young people in this new collection of short fictions, grl2grl 2. Stories will be available for download one at a time until the collection is complete. (For young adults)
Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters is the critically-acclaimed, award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young adults and children. Her books have been published in numerous countries, including Korea, China, Croatia, Germany, France, Italy, Indonesia, Turkey, and Brazil. Julie is a member of The Society of Book Writers and Illustrators, the Colorado Authors League, and The Authors Guild. She loves writing because she gets to be her own boss and doesn't have to work in an office cubicle. It's hard to think outside the box when you work in a cube. Julie lives in Lakewood, Colorado, with her partner, Sherri, and far too many cats. The cats are under the impression that they're creative geniuses, since they spend a majority of their day walking back and forth across her computer keyboard. They probably generate more words per day than she does, but who can read cat gibberish?
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Reviews for Grl2grl 2
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Short stories about disaffected & odd & alternative teen girls discovering self & sexuality & life its ownself. Well-done.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I wanted to love this book, I really did. Julie Anne Peters wrote the first (to my knowledge) young adult novel about a transgendered character, and here she is producing a series of short stories about queer girls. I never expected to be blown away by the prose. Her Luna is a book which is important for its subject matter, but which reads like a paint by numbers problem novel. Nevertheless, I hoped she would really add to the canon of clear young adult fiction.In some ways, grl2grl does exactly that. Of course there are a variety of short stories about lesbian teens. Some are traumatized about coming out, while others are comfortable with their sexuality and only worried about their individual romantic dramas (why is she cheating on me? why doesn't she love me?). There is, as anticipated, a story about a transgendered boi, though it upsettingly ends in a hate crime. Another protagonist finds herself attracted to a genderqueer girl in an almost nonsexual story. In one of the tales, a character who certainly seems to be gendered as male is romantically attracted to his teacher; I admit I'm not sure what the story is doing in this collection, as all of the other entries feature protagonists who are either gendered or biologically female.I know that no book can be every book. I didn't fault Luna for only including the experiences of femme MTF youth, as that book was about that one particular character and only needed to represent her reality. However, an ideologically-based book of short stories has somewhat more over responsibility, if not to portray all experiences positively, then at least refraining from making its sole representations of certain queer sexualities as negative ones.Grl2grl presents one asexual character, and shows that her clearly dysfunctional lack of sexuality is the result of extensive sexual abuse at home. The collection also presents no bisexual characters, although there is one offhand insult about a former girlfriend who thought she was bisexual but was actually heterosexual. In a collection with such a wide variety of presentations of youthful female sexuality, these two negative portrayals stand out with disturbing prominence.These short stories are not high-quality enough fiction to stand on their own as fiction. Their excuse for existing is to fulfill an ideological project -- and don't get me wrong, it's an important ideological project. But given this limitation, the negative presentations of asexuality and bisexuality worry me. Plenty of adolescents are fighting with non-heteronormative sexualities as they come of age, and some of those non-heteronormative sexualities include a lack of desire for sex or romance (difficult for teens in a world which constantly throws messages of sex at teenagers and adults) or desire for individuals across the gender/sex spectrum (equally difficult given the hostility of many in the queer community toward bisexuality). I worry that a reader with bisexual or asexual tendencies, given this collection by a well-meaning librarian will see herself as excluded even by the queer and genderqueer communities.It's not that I think this book needed to present all forms of potential female sexuality in a positive light. I just wish that it had chosen not to be negative about those forms of sexuality it was choosing not to present positively.
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Grl2grl 2 - Julie Anne Peters
Readers weigh in on grl2grl: short fictions
(the first collection)
What is there to say about Julie’s book grl2grl? It goes there, fits quite nicely. From coming out, to dealing with hate, violence, discrimination, self destructive behaviors and abuse. It goes there. Julie managed to hit home on a few topics for me, in just one book! The relationships feel real, as do the situations. It’s an amazingly insightful book into the world of gay, lesbian and transsexual teens, that would be good for LGBT youth and their friends and family, to show what we really go through.
In grl2grl YA author Julie Anne Peters breaks out of the novel genre for something, well, novel. If you're a fan of Peters' other works, {the first} collection of short fictions…will speak to you no matter what you've gone through, abuse, breakups, volatile relationships, the confusion of cyberspace, clicking with somebody, or hiding who you really are, there's something in grl2grl for you.
Grl2grl 2: Blessings and Miracles
by
Julie Anne Peters
Copyright 2011 by Julie Anne Peters
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