Publisher Description
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book
The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.
Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
"It’s also a great resource for those who identify as nonbinary or asexual as well as for those who know someone who identifies that way and wish to better understand." — SLJ (starred review)
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About the Narrators
Trini
Alvarado is an American actress best known for her feature film roles in Little Women, The Frighteners, and Paulie,
for which she was nominated for an ALMA Award. Her television credits include series
such as Finge, Law & Order: SUV, and The
Jury as well as TV movies including Bitter
Winter and The Last Dance. As a
youth, she appeared as Melinda in the Broadway performance of Runaways. She has narrated several
audiobooks, earning this praise from AudioFile
magazine for her reading of Trickster’s
Queen: “Happily, this book gets the narrator it needs in Trini Alvarado,
who provides an extensive range of expression for both males and females, human
or immortal, friend or foe. Her clear speech and judicious pace guide listeners
through multiple intrigues to a satisfying end. A gem.”
Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.