A gay teenager in a small town narrates his life as though a camera is on him, because the alternative is admitting what is actually happening around him.
It won the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature and generated a national argument about whether it should have, which is most of what the book is known for here.
The fantasy framing is the point. He narrates in glitter because the unmediated version is a kid being destroyed by a school that will not intervene, and the book is loosely built on a real killing.
Read May 2015.