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The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester

An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.

Main Author: MacGregor, Maya (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Astra Young Readers, [2022]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Delafield, Dotty tribute.
Murder > Young adult fiction.
Gender identity > Young adult fiction.
Sexual orientation > Young adult fiction.
Autism > Young adult fiction.
Adoption > Young adult fiction.
Single-parent families > Young adult fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction > Young adult.
Summary: An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.
Physical Description: 350 pages ; 24 cm
Audience: Ages 12+.
Grades 7-9.
ISBN: 9781635923599
163592359X
Author Notes: Maya MacGregor is a writer, singer, and artist. They sing and write in G idhlig and in English. You can find their bilingual work on tor.com, in Steall magazine (summer 2020), and Uncanny magazine, with poetry in Poets' Republic and elsewhere. They sing with the Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association, the Alba Choir, and Fuaran. The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester is their first young adult novel.

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