Book description
In a futuristic society run by an all-powerful Gov, a bender teen on the cusp of adulthood has choices to make that will change her life—and maybe the world.
Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an…
Why read it?
1 author picked Lizard Radio as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s always great to get a reminder to be true to yourself when you don’t fit in easily.
This dystopian YA novel has good worldbuilding and a rich lexicon of new words that gives it that idiosyncratic futuristic feeling. The protagonist is a barely fifteen-year-old girl “bender”—someone who doesn’t feel comfortable in their assigned gender and doesn’t hide that. She has been sent to a camp that will determine her future, making sure she doesn’t end up in the “Blight”, a huge concentration camp for society’s undesirables.
But for a good outcome, she must conform, and her fellow campers and…
From Kelly's list on The best books that remind us that nonbinary people are human, too.
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