“Tender, beautiful.a sensitive, uplifting narrative, one that feels much-needed.” - Nylon, Best Book of the Month The birthday structure could feel like a gimmick, but it works thanks to her characters, especially Morgan, who is true and raw, haunting and undeniable. Russo is herself trans, and she brings her whole heart to a story laced with pain that, in the end, lifts with hope. “Lovers who surmount the odds have always been intense emotional fodder, but rarely have we seen a story like Meredith Russo’s Birthday. YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults List Texas Library Association’s Tayshas Top 10 Book New York Public Library Top 10 Teen Book of the YearĬhicago Public Library “Best of the Best”
“Beautifully written, Birthday is an altogether singular contribution to the gradually growing body of transgender literature and, indeed, to mainstream literature, as well.” -ALA Booklist, starred review
From the award-winning author of If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo, comes a heart-wrenching and universal story of identity, first love, and fate. Six years of birthdays reveal Eric and Morgan’s destiny as they come together, drift apart, fall in love, and discover who they’re meant to be-and if they’re meant to be together. Maybe one day I’ll be ready to become the person I am inside. With a dad who cares about his football team more than me, a mom I miss more than anything, and a best friend who can never know my biggest secret. MORGAN: I know that every birthday should feel like a new beginning, but I’m trapped in this mixed-up body, in this wrong life, in Nowheresville, Tennessee, on repeat. That there’ll be a day, a minute, a second, where it all falls apart and there’s no turning back the clock. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won’t be best friends forever. The years where we stuck by each other’s side-as Morgan’s mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life.
Six years.ĮRIC: There was the day we were born. “Lovers who surmount the odds have always been intense emotional fodder, but rarely have we seen a story like ue and raw, haunting and undeniable.” - The New York Times Book Review
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