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by Hannah Moskowitz

Book, 2015

Publication

Simon Pulse (2015), 304 pages

Awards

ALA Rainbow Book List (Selection — Young Adult Fiction — 2016)
Bisexual Book Award (Winner — 2015)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender girl) is bisexual.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: The main bisexual character is black.

Publisher's Summary: Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown. Everywhere she turns, someone feels she’s too fringe for the fringe. Not gay enough for the Dykes, her ex-clique, thanks to a recent relationship with a boy; not tiny and white enough for ballet, her first passion; not sick enough to look anorexic (partially thanks to recovery). Etta doesn’t fit anywhere—until she meets Bianca, the straight, white, Christian, and seriously sick girl in Etta’s therapy group. Both girls are auditioning for Brentwood, a prestigious New York theater academy that is so not Nebraska. Bianca might be Etta’s salvation…but can Etta be saved by a girl who needs saving herself? - Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown.

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