Sam(uel)
By: Colleen Gareau
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780993845635
Subjects: Abused women; Fiction; Unmarried mothers; Friendship; Gender identity; Transgender people
Other titles: Samuel; Sam
Description: Lizzie is seventeen, pregnant and on the run from a violent father, a defeated mother and an abusive boyfriend when she meets Sam, a trans-gendered sex worker, who offers her refuge. Lizzie is conflicted as her feelings for Sam grow. The two attract and repel, their emotons colliding with their conceptions of their own sexuality including Sam's long struggle to live as a straight female. Faced with a life-threatening crisis, Lizzie must find it within herself to help Sam before it's too late. --Page 4 of cover.