Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Auteur van Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
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Beautiful Music for Ugly Children builds some lovable characters and interesting, complicated relationships. Cronn-Mills doesn't spend much time with Gabe's parents, but their reactions are contradictory, pained, confused, and loving, in a way that feels realistic. Gabe and Paige's relationship explores all kinds of new territory for them and resists resolution. Gabe and John, Gabe and Mara, John and Gabe's family---I could go on, but they all resist easy categories and they're all interesting.
The issues Gabe runs into around being trans are handled very well (yay!!), even if it dips into melodrama sometimes. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children mostly succeeds at being a book about a person who has other interests and other things going on in his life, and also happens to be trans. I hope other books will do it even better in the future, but this is, so far, the cream of the crop.… (meer)