About a Girl: A Novel

by Sarah McCarry

Book, 2015

Publication

St. Martin's Griffin (2015), 272 pages

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2016)
ALA Rainbow Book List (Selection — Young Adult Fiction — 2016)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Several characters (including the main bisexual character) are people of color. A supporting character is a transgender man.

Publisher's Summary: Eighteen-year-old Tally is absolutely sure of everything: her genius, the love of her adoptive family, the loyalty of her best friend, Shane, and her future career as a Nobel prize-winning astronomer. There's no room in her tidy world for heartbreak or uncertainty—or the charismatic, troubled mother who abandoned her soon after she was born. But when a sudden discovery upends her fiercely ordered world, Tally sets out on an unexpected quest to seek out the reclusive musician who may hold the key to her past—and instead finds Maddy, an enigmatic and beautiful girl who will unlock the door to her future...

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