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# The Art of Being Normal: A Novel Hardcover – May 31, 2016

**Brand:** lisa williamson
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## Customer Reviews

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    a solid teen novel about friendship and finding yourself
  

*by S***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018*

I purchased this book as part of a 30 Days of Pride Book Review project. This is that review:When David was 8 years old, his class was told to write about who they wanted to be when they grew up.  This is what David wrote: “I want to be a girl.”  Five and half years later that wish has not changed, but it seems to David that time is running out to make it right. Everyday his body is changing in the wrong direction, he's getting taller, his feet are getting bigger, and other parts of his anatomy seem to have minds of their own.  He hates the strange body staring back at him from the mirror. But everytime he tries to work up the courage to tell his parents about who he really is, he chickens out at the last minute.  How is anything supposed to change for the better if he can't even explain, to the very people who might be able to help, exactly what is wrong?Leo needs to focus on flying under the radar at Eden Park, so he can sit his exams, get into a college, and get as far away from Cloverdale as possible.  He doesn't mind the  rumor spreading around that he got expelled from his last school because he was a psycho.  If that helped people stay out of his way, mores the better.  But things are not quite going to plan, because the most beautiful girl he'd ever laid eyes on keeps striking up conversations with him, a kid from year ten, David, wants to be his friend (for some inexplicable reason), and he's on permanent probation for punching a kid (who really had it coming).  But he can't let any of this distract him, Eden Park is his ticket out of Cloverdale and he HAS to escape.This is a story, more than anything, about friendship.  There are other things going on, of course.  Both our POV characters David and Leo have big things happening in their lives that they have to learn to deal with: first romances, school bullies, family issues and endless identity crises.  But, at the crux, this was a story about finding someone you can relate to and suddenly not feeling alone.I quite enjoyed this book.I liked that it was more about friendship and self discovery than romance.  I liked that it had a more realistic depiction of the struggles of a trans-teen.  I liked that it got into some of the class issues, as well as the double standards still operating towards psychological torment versus physical violence in the school system. I liked that it captures how very isolating and lonely it can feel to be seen as not normal and how much that can screw with your mind, while you decide from minute to minute if you'd rather tear down what is normative or magically blend in. I liked that things didn't come one hundred percent easy for the characters or magically get better in an after-school special kinda way.It was just, overall, a solid teen novel about friendship and finding yourself.Honestly, the thing I found most irksome was the plot description on the back cover.  A detail about Leo is revealed in the first sentence, that Leo himself doesn't reveal until page 176 of a 344 page novel.  Now, there were plenty of signs that this was happening and I probably would have picked up on it from the beginning anyway, even if the back hadn't spoiled it, but I can't say for sure because I didn't have the opportunity to read it that way.  In the second paragraph of the plot description they talk about a character named Kate.  This name does not appear anywhere in the novel until page 266.  Which isn't a huge spoiler… but is kind of a head scratcher.  I just don't understand why the plot description was written this way when the book itself wasn't.  It's like they were at cross purposes from each other.Do I recommend this book. Yes, I do.  It was a pleasant read, living in that happy medium  between unrealistically easy LGBT+ story and overly realistically depressing LGBT+ story. Just don't read the back cover until you've read the rest of the book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    This book made me come out as trans.
  

*by L***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2020*

It has been over two years since the evening I finished the book. I had a horrible migraine, and I left school early and spent the afternoon reading this book with an umbrella over my head. Sound and light were unbearable to me, but I couldn't stop reading.This book made me come out as transgender. I am on hormone replacement therapy, and I am going into college now, thinking of going stealth - I learned that word from Leo. Thank you, Leo, and thank you especially, Kate, for guiding me, a terrified high schooler, through this scary path.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    An importent story!
  

*by Å***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2017*

It is strange for me to read about Young People who og trough Things like David does. But I must say I fell in love With these characters and their stories, and thanks to this book I will pay more attention to transexual People and I feel like I might understand them more now. What I know that I do understand is that they are just People, like all of us are. Respect. I feel like this book helped me pay more respect to People in general. Rally Nice story. Very importent.

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