Too Bright to See

Too Bright to See

2021 • 194 pages

Ratings15

Average rating4.4

15

I saw my younger pre-realizing-I'm-trans self so clearly in Bug and it makes me so happy that the author's note at the end is about how to refer to Bug when talking about the story. In a time when there's rampant moral panic about drag queens and trans kids, it gives me hope to read a story about a kid coming to understand himself as trans with a little supernatural help from his ghost drag-queen uncle, and then being fully affirmed by his mom, his friends and the administration of his new school. This book is necessary and important.

May 6, 2023