/DEBUT MIDDLE-GRADE NOVELIST Lexie Bean’s dazzling, poetic, and powerful
/The Ship We Built/, published by Dial Press in May, is the story of
10-year-old Rowan, who was born a girl but identifies as a boy. It’s
1997, and the idea of children being transgender is foreign to the
Michigan mining community where Rowan lives. Rowan feels very alone. He
writes letters to an unknown recipient and ties them to helium balloons,
which he releases into the air, hoping someone will find them. Rowan
also carries a dark secret: sometimes his father comes into his bedroom
at night. Unable to tell anyone, Rowan becomes almost silent, just as
the author, an incest and domestic abuse survivor, became mute in fifth
grade.
/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/little-queer-nursery-rhymes-a-conversation-with-lexie-bean/
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