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Boldly weird, cool, and confident, this YA novel of LGBTQ+ teen artists, activists, and telepathic visionaries offers hope against climate and community destruction. From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Out of Salem. James Goldberg, self-described neurotic goth gay transsexual stoner, is a senior in high school, and fully over it. He mostly ignores his classes at Cow Pie High, instead focusing on fundraising for the near-bankrupt local LGBTQ+ youth support group, Compton House, and attending punk shows with his friend-crush Ian and best friend Opal. But when James falls in love with Orsino, a homeschooled trans boy with telepathic powers and visions of the future, he wonders if the scope of what he believes possible is too small. Orsino, meanwhile, hopes that in James he has finally found someone who will be able to share the apocalyptic visions he has had to keep to himself, and better understand the powers they hold. How to Get over the End of the World confirms Hal Schrieve as a unique and to-be-celebrated voice in LGBTQ+ YA fiction with this multi-voiced story about flawed people trying their hardest to make a better world, about the beauty and craziness of hope, about too-big dreams and reality checks, and about the ways in which human messiness--egos, jealousy, insecurity--and good faith can coexist. It also about preserving the ties within a chosen family--and maybe saving the world--through love, art, and acts of resistance. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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There are three trans masc characters, two nonbinary characters, and one surprise trans femme, who comes out halfway through the book.
These kids are working on a rock opera fundraiser to save their lgbt center.
If all that isn’t enough, Orsino is psychic, and aliens are contacting him about trying to save the world by changing the timeline somewhere to prevent climate disaster.
So it’s messy, and the alien plot felt like too much, and also if it’s got to be in there I’d have liked them to have succeeded at saving the world. It felt like that plotline kind of petered out. However, kudos for trying to put all that into one book. It was definitely the book I want to exist, it just kind of failed to take it all the way to the conclusion I wanted. ( )