num_pages: 87
description: “Let’s pretend you’re a girl today.” So started the private, intimate little game between Aunt Emily and her nephew, Alan. Alan, at first, agreed only because he loved his aunt and was immensely grateful that she had taken him to live with her when he was orphaned a few years earlier. They played it only in the house. And they played it only on Sundays when there were no servants in the house. On all the other days of the week, Alan was a boy, a boy at school, a boy with his friends, a boy six days a week. But on Sundays they played the Sunday Game. They played if for years. And Alan got to be very good at being Chrissy. And Chrissy got to love being Chrissy. A girl … one day a week. They played it for nearly three years … alone … together … in the house. But then, on Chrissy’s fourteenth birthday, Aunt Emily decided that it was time for Chrissy to meet the world. And for the world to meet Chrissy. But how? Then, in another town, several hours away, an old friend of Aunt Emily was giving her own fourteen-year-old daughter a party. And Chrissy was invited. Seven girls and seven boys at a teenagers birthday party. And Chrissy was one of the girls. What could happen?
language: English
title: The Sunday Game