num_pages: 335
description: The first thing youre going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy or am I a girl?Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy and others as a girl. The thing isRiley isnt exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in uber-conservative Orange County the pressuremedia and otherwiseis building up in Rileys so-called normal life.On the advice of a therapist Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what its REALLY like to be a gender fluid teenager. But just as Rileys starting to settle in at schooleven developing feelings for a mysterious outcastthe blog goes viral and an unnamed commenter discovers Rileys real identity threatening exposure. Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has createda lifeline new friends a cause to believe inor stand up come out and risk everything.
language: English
title: Symptoms of Being Human
publisher: Balzer + Bray