Author Description

"Maia Kobabe has created a sensitive and at the same time radically open autobiography - about the search for oneself. In the 1990s, Maia Kobabe is a slightly stubborn teenager who encounters questions and resistance at every turn. Secret crushes on classmates, friendships, family crises, school stress - the normal madness of puberty. But Maia stumbles far more than eir peers. As a girl, Maia feels uncomfortable and often out of place. But Maia doesn't want to be a boy either, at least not completely. Can you be neither one nor the other and still be happy? Genderqueer is one of the most successful comic autobiographies of recent years, a liberating blow with which Maia Kobabe not only records her own story and search for identity, but has also created an immensely important guide to gender identity for people searching for themselves and their place in the world." --