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perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce and Kristin Cashore--set in the same world as Of Fire and Stars

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"A riveting examination of identity and how the people who raise us make us-and how we all must continually remake ourselves

After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own

The Beautiful Room Is Empty Format:Paperback Buy this bookWhen the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a