A Novel
by Mark Oshiro
An intimate first-person voice follows a queer teen balancing panic attacks, family grief, and a fledgling romance while becoming a focal point for community outrage after a traumatic night. The book’s strength is its close, confiding scenes of anxiety and tenderness set beside high-energy protest and organizing passages. Anger appears as lived feeling and public action, not background texture. Its main limitation is occasional heaviness when scenes turn into speeches and strategy, which may feel didactic to readers wanting quieter nuance.
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Moss Jeffries is many things_x0097_considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd.But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else_x0097_someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn_x0092_t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night.And most of a...
Difficulty:hard
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appears in LGBTQ, Teen, and Teen & Young Adult.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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