He willingly carries the weight of his parents’ high expectations, but my heart continually ached for him. He is generous with his time, devout in his faith, and always eager to do the right thing. He could easily be a bitter, self-destructive character, but he adapts while maintaining his naturally friendly nature.Ī model student and son of a bishop, Sebastian is the small town’s golden boy. It almost sounds like the beginning of a joke but for Tanner, being forced back into the closet is an unfortunate reality.

This story, however, addresses contemporary concerns that feel genuine in every way.Ī bisexual half-Jewish high school student moves to a Mormon town. Maybe I’m just old and jaded, but I tend to shy away from most Young Adult fiction because teen drama frequently seems inconsequential or manufactured to me. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.Īutoboyography is a compulsively readable Young Adult triumph. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class.

It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.īut when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar-where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester-Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet.

the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this “sensitive and complex” ( BCCB) coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class-one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community. Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers on September 12, 2017įangirl meets Simon vs.

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren