While all of this happened, I stayed quiet. They lisped their words and waved around boneless wrists until it was clear that to be gay was also, in some mysterious but definite way, to be a grotesque parody of a woman. Worst of all were the times when my new classmates pretended to be gay. Fags, they said, the word making little tendrils of alarm uncurl along my spine.
Their disgust became even more pronounced when they talked about gay men. Sluts, the boys called them, in an easy, matter-of-fact tone that made me flinch. Most of all, though, they liked to talk about the girls at our sister school. The boys around me complained about our biology homework, and speculated together over whether the Bills had a shot at the Super Bowl this year. It seemed better not to speak at all.īut this unnatural reserve didn’t last long: by mid-September, my homeroom buzzed with voices. It seemed better, that first morning, not to risk breaking any unspoken rules. No one knew what the social hierarchy was here, at this all-boys Catholic school where black-robed friars walked the halls and the upperclassmen towered over us, their voices deep enough to be our fathers’. On the morning of my first day of high school, everyone in my homeroom sat in silence - stiff-backed and rigid and afraid, sweating through the dress shirts our mothers had bought for us. This time, we asked : What book was your feminist awakening? Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. Singled out by a goddess, accompanied by a semi-divine cat with firm opinions, somehow she survives her many adventures to become a most unlikely legend.Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. She sees battle as a squire and as a knight, lives among desert people and tries to rescue an independent princess. It is about friendships–with the heir to the throne, the King of Thieves, a wise and kindly knight–and her long struggle against a powerful enemy mage. The quartet is about her struggle to achieve her goals and to master weapons, combat, polite behavior, her magic, her temper, and even her own heart. She becomes Alan Thom becomes a student wizard in the school where she would have learned to be a lady.
Rather than give up her dream, she and her brother–who wants to be a mage, not a knight–switch places. It’s also about a very stubborn girl.Īlanna of Trebond wants to be a knight of the realm of Tortall, in a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors.
This story, all four books, is about the making of a hero.
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