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Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancox
5.0
emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced
I love a good comic/graphic novel! This was a great YA memoir that takes place mostly in the early 2000s (my era!!!). Lewis Hancox takes the reader throughout his younger life before he came out as trans. He also talks directly to the past versions of himself, his parents, and his friends, which you can tell was probably a very cathartic writing for him. The comic medium really allows a lot of the feelings he felt being closeted to come out in illustration and metaphor that resonated with me, a cis person. I also really appreciate that while Hancox shows how much he personally suffered in his body growing up, he acknowledged he did have relatively supportive friends and family, which not nearly enough trans people do. I can only imagine how helpful this comic memoir is to trans youth!
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