18 транс-книг транс-авторов в 2023 году

Release date: July 11, 2023

What it’s about: It’s been almost a decade since Elisheva Cohen fled the Brooklyn and Orthodox community that raised her, and later shunned her due to her substance abuse. Despite the passing of time, these wounds are still fresh, but when Ely gets a life-changing opportunity to study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole, she’s willing to take the leap and move back home to Brooklyn. On her first night back, Ely goes out for a celebratory night of dancing at the queer club Revel, where she is swept off her feet and into bed by a gorgeous man with a face like James Dean and a thick Carolina accent. When she wakes up the next morning to rush to photography class, the last thing she expects is to find out that her anonymous hookup from the night before was with none other than Wyatt Cole, her new teacher.

Wyatt Cole is a legend in the art world, everyone wants to get close to him, and his notorious personal life makes him even more compelling, despite it being hard to discuss. After coming out as transgender, Wyatt was dishonorably discharged from the military and disowned by his entire family, which led to him getting serious about his sobriety and channeling his pain into his art career. While Ely and Cole’s relationship began as solely physical, their similar struggles only bring them closer together, and while their chemistry is undeniable, their new relationship as teacher and student means they will have to keep their emotions in check and their relationship appropriate (and platonic).

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Release date: September 12, 2023

What it’s about: Transgender high school student, Noah, decides that in order to master the art of romance and prove his identity, he must join his school’s secret Borrow a Boyfriend Club. While his main goal in this was to try and get his classmates to view him as his true gender, he is surprised when he finds himself falling for the club’s grumpy president.

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Release date: November 28, 2023

What it’s about: Gem Echols, a nonbinary Seminole teenager living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia, is doing their best to always be at their best, hiding their extreme anxiety in order to be a good queer role model for their peers. The only person who truly knows Gem is Enzo, another trans kid who, unfortunately, lives a thousand miles away in Brooklyn. The one thing Gem hasn’t told Enzo, or anyone else, is that he’s having bad dreams — dreams with haunting visions of magic and violence that feel much too close for comfort.

Despite not telling anyone about the dreams that haunt them, Gem is shocked to find out that the new girl in town, Willa Mae, knows about them. Willa Mae acts like the two are old friends and seems to know things about them that no one else does. But when Gem is attacked by a stranger claiming to be the Goddess of Death, Willa Mae comes to their rescue and finally offers them some answers. She reveals to Gem that the two of them are reincarnated gods who have known and loved each other across many lifetimes. Willa Mae also reveals that in their past lives, Gem wasn’t the most agreeable diety, having made a lot of enemies in the pantheon who, like the Goddess of Death, are sure to keep coming. As their past lives catch up with their present, Gem will realize that everyone has something to hide.

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