Old Music for New People: A Novel

David Biddle displays this struggle within the Scattergood family when cousin Rita visits for the summer and puts everyone's ideas of identity, adulthood, maturity, and their own biases on the table to talk about in Old Songs for New People. It is an honest conversation about the struggle to understand someone's transgender journey. Biddle starts this road from Quaker ideals as the family has been raised in the Quaker belief system. Their knowledge of the rainbow community is from television and not their reality. Now Ivy's mother is a doctor so her knowledge might be more expansive, but still Rita's appearance was a shock to her too.

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