![]() ![]() She has used this advantage in her very funny new novel Pink, for older readers. Working for the Centre for Youth Literature, Lili Wilkinson (author of Scatterheart and The Not- Quite Perfect Boyfriend) must be very familiar with everything that is out there in young adult fiction today. A refreshing addition to the LGBT oeuvre.-Cruze, Karen Copyright 2010 Booklist Written with a great deal of snarky wit, this Australian import never gets overly heavy despite all the hand-wringing. ![]() ![]() How to make the world of the screws, Chloe, and the more conventional new school friends fit together (or not) powers Ava's narrative. ![]() The change of environment creates its own perplexities, foremost among them Ava's encounters with a bunch of theater-crew misfits. Ava, despite coming out as a lesbian, especially feels the need to hide the thought that she might want to kiss a boy. Too bad Ava has to hide her desires from both her aggressively antiestablishment parents and her supersophisticated but desperately jaded girlfriend, Chloe, who's been left behind in public school. But clad in cotton-candy cashmere, she starts life at a posh new private school where both academic success and a smooth conformity seem the norm. Pink wasn't existential, explains Ava as her story of identity confusion begins. ![]()
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