Adam: A Novel

Adam: A Novel

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