Title: None of The Above
Author: I. W. Gregorio
Published: April 7th, 2015 by Balzer + Bray
read in: April, 2015
young adult • contemporary
“That was when I realized that life was a multiple-choice test with two answers: Male or Female. And I was None of the Above.”
What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant?
When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into place. She’s a champion hurdler with a full scholarship to college and she’s madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact, she’s decided that she’s ready to take things to the next level with him.
But Kristin’s first time isn’t the perfect moment she’s planned—something is very wrong. A visit to the doctor reveals the truth: Kristin is intersex, which means that though she outwardly looks like a girl, she has male chromosomes, not to mention boy “parts.”
Dealing with her body is difficult enough, but when her diagnosis is leaked to the whole school, Kristin’s entire identity is thrown into question. As her world unravels, can she come to terms with her new self?
“Did anyone ever mention anything to you about something called androgen insensitivity syndrome, or AIS?”
This is the kind of book people should read more whether they’re into reading or not since we all have the same feeling at least once in our life where we questioned our own identity and felt like we didn’t fit in what the world justifies as normal and not. It is a powerful and important matter brought to life with a simple words that can relate to anyone who reads it.
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