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Gilmore Girls meets Red, White and Royal Blue in this witty and warm-hearted novel about a trans teen finding his place in the world
There are just two things keeping Finch Kelly from a full-blown case of high school senioritis: a) the agony of waiting to learn whether he's gotten off the deferral list to Georgetown and b) the prospect of taking home the gold at the National Speech & Debate Tournament. So when he officially gets rejected from Georgetown, all his dreams of a future in politics and life outside the Pacific Northwest come crashing down. His only hope, or so he believes, is to somehow convince Georgetown to reconsider...and what better way to do that than by crushing the competition at nationals?
Unfortunately, no amount of debate prep can shake Finch of his deeply held fears: that his wrinkled Gap Kids suit will never measure up to his prep-school competitors' starched uniforms and that he'll never find a love as picture-perfect as the one his debate partner, Jonah, has with his movie-star-handsome boyfriend. But as Finch knows better than anyone, there are two sides to every argument. Peyton Thomas is a freelance journalist with bylines in Pitchfork, Billboard, and Vanity Fair. He was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow, studying under Benjamin Alire Sáenz. He lives in Toronto, and Both Sides Now will be his debut novel.
There are just two things keeping Finch Kelly from a full-blown case of high school senioritis: a) the agony of waiting to learn whether he's gotten off the deferral list to Georgetown and b) the prospect of taking home the gold at the National Speech & Debate Tournament. So when he officially gets rejected from Georgetown, all his dreams of a future in politics and life outside the Pacific Northwest come crashing down. His only hope, or so he believes, is to somehow convince Georgetown to reconsider...and what better way to do that than by crushing the competition at nationals?
Unfortunately, no amount of debate prep can shake Finch of his deeply held fears: that his wrinkled Gap Kids suit will never measure up to his prep-school competitors' starched uniforms and that he'll never find a love as picture-perfect as the one his debate partner, Jonah, has with his movie-star-handsome boyfriend. But as Finch knows better than anyone, there are two sides to every argument. Peyton Thomas is a freelance journalist with bylines in Pitchfork, Billboard, and Vanity Fair. He was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow, studying under Benjamin Alire Sáenz. He lives in Toronto, and Both Sides Now will be his debut novel.
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