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Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection
By (Author) Madeline Dyer
Page Street Publishing Co.
Page Street Kids
30th January 2024
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Short stories
820.8092067
Hardback
352
Width 148mm, Height 216mm, Spine 30mm
488g
Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters, the stories of this anthology are anything but conventional. Whether adventuring through space, outsmarting a vengeful water spirit, or surviving haunted cemeteries, no two aces are the same in these 14 unique works that highlight asexual romance, aromantic love, and identities across the asexual spectrum.
"Themes of grief, community expectations, resilience, self-esteem, and queer joy are woven throughout this anthology [...] readers hungry for intersectional ace (and frequently also aro) representation will be pleased to see a range of queer identities, racial backgrounds, and disabilities."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Being Ace is an essential YA anthology. It's a perfect palette that paints the richness of asexuality, in all its many shades and hues. This is the first anthology I've read that really gets what it means to be authentically, honestly ace. Fantastic!"
-Saundra Mitchell, bestselling editor of All Out, Out Now and Out There
Madeline Dyer writes YA thrillers, fantasy, poetry, personal essays, and memoir. She is the SIBA-award-winning author of the Untamed series and the Dangerous Ones series, as well as the adult contemporary novels In My Dreams and My Heart to Find from Ineja Press, the latter of which has been nominated for the 2021 Reader's Choice Award for Romance. In 2020 she organized and hosted the first virtual YA Thriller Con and hosted the second annual event in July 2021.