Adam: A Novel

When Adam Freedman -- a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager fromPiedmont, California -- goes to stay with his older sister Casey in NewYork City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it suredoes. It is the Summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rightsare in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbiansubculture. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there are hot older women everywhere he turns. It takes some time for him torealize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans -- a boy who wasborn a girl. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around? Then Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams -- but she couldn't possibly be interested in him. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work in his favor...Ariel Schrag's scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a freshspin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what ittakes to be at home in your own skin. Read more