Bøger af Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag continues her tumultuous passage through high school in the second book of her acclaimed series of frank, insightful, and painfully honest autobiographical graphic novels. Written during the summer following her junior year at Berkeley High School in California, Potential recounts Ariel's first real relationship and first-time love with a girl, her quest to lose her virginity to a boy, and her parents' divorce -- as well as the personal and social complications of writing about her life as she lives it. Along the way she hangs out with her favorite teacher, obsesses over clothes, gets drunk, smokes pot, and tries to connect the biology she reads about in textbooks with the biology she's living.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. A sweet and subversive coming-of-age novel by award-winning memoirist and screenwriter Ariel Schrag.When Adam Freedman?a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California?goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure does.It is the summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rights are in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbian subculture. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there are hot older women everywhere he turns. It takes some time for him to realize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans?a boy who was born a girl. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around?Then Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams?but she couldn't possibly be interested in him. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work in his favor . . .Ariel Schrag's scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it takes to be at home in your own skin."An insightful, funny, and unexpected love story."?Aimee Mann"[An] audacious coming-of-age novel."?Miami Herald "Compulsively readable."?Bookforum "Hilarious...Schrag's riotous, poignant debut novel will leave you reeling."?SF Weekly