Nothing Ever Happens Here

this book was absolutely rife with transphobia, homophobia and misgendering and i actually had to stop and do something else a couple of times because it was just too much for me

the transwoman in this book is so apologetic about how her transness is affecting others and it just made me so sad. everyone in her life seems to react negatively to it (this book is from the pov of her 12 year old daughter, who yes, misgenders her and has issues with her transness) and it must just feel so isolating and yet we don't really see that.

i definitely think this book was written by a cis person for cis people and the journey to ‘acceptance' for the mc and surrounding characters just felt a bit simplistic

Young people these days are so lucky that books like this exist. I didn't “need” them, per se, since I always identified as cis and straight, and obviously every book I read as a child or teen was filled with people like me. But I still wish we'd had stories like this, about LGBT families, just to normalise it. And especially for my contemporaries who felt different and excluded, to see themselves represented. And for the bullies and ignorant people to learn from.