num_pages: 336
description: An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimmer fighting to keep their head above water in a landlocked Midwestern town.River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of business in small-town Ohio. When a chance encounter with a happy healthy queer person on the annual field trip lands River literally in the shark tank they must admit the truth: they dont know who they areonly what theyve been told to be. This sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria through layers of coming out affirmation surgery and true freakin love.
language: English
title: Man o' War
publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers