Choir_Boy_(novel)

<i>Choir Boy</i> (novel)

Choir Boy (novel)

Book by Charlie Jane Anders

Choir Boy is a 2005 novel by Charlie Jane Anders.[1][2]

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Plot

Berry, a 12-year-old boy, wants nothing more than to remain a choirboy. Desperate to keep his voice from changing, Berry tries to injure himself, and then convinces a clinic to give him testosterone-inhibiting drugs that keep his voice from deepening but also cause him to grow breasts. Suddenly Berry's thrown into a world of unexpected gender issues that push him into a universe far more complex than anything he's ever known.

Reception

Choir Boy won the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature.[3]

Tikkun described it as "engaging", noting its "believable, frustrating quality", and lauded Anders for "handl[ing] issues of gender (and religion, race, and class) with a light touch."[4]

Kirkus Reviews called it "groundbreaking and unflinching", with Berry's story being "memorable", but overall faulted it for a "lack of a cohesive voice and too much figurative language", with "[a]trocious metaphors, sloppy editing and too many pithy observations [that] detract from the prose."[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Choir Boy". Goodreads.
  2. [2]
    Maguire, James (December 4, 2014). "Keeping S.F. safe for subversives at Writers With Drinks". San Francisco Chronicle.
  3. [3]
    Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (2013-12-11). "18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  4. [4]
    Choir Boy, reviewed by Katje Richstatter; in Tikkun; vol. 21, no. 1 (January/February 2006), p. 75; archived at Project MUSE; retrieved December 4, 2022
  5. [5]
    Choir Boy, reviewed in Kirkus Reviews; published April 15, 2005; archived online May 20, 2010; retrieved December 4, 2022
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