Adam

When Adam Freedman -- a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from
Piedmont, California -- goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New
York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure
does.
It is the Summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rights
are in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbian
subculture. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there
are hot older women everywhere he turns. It takes some time for him to
realize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans -- a boy who was
born a girl. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around?
Then
Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams -- but she couldn't possibly
be interested in him. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work
in his favor...
Ariel Schrag's scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh
spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it
takes to be at home in your own skin.