Young Adult · Ages 13+ · Coming soon
Read the Room.
About the book
A deaf teenage girl learns that the people who truly belong in her life are the ones who see her clearly, not just the ones who notice her.
June can read a room before she steps into it. She has been the steady one, the careful one, the one her family relies on to soften the edges. In her last year of secondary school, she begins to wonder what it would mean to be the one who is read — instead of the one who is reading.
For the teenagers who carry quiet weight, and for the people who love them. Honest, a little messy, and unwilling to tie things up too neatly.
Themes- Emotional labour
- Family & obligation
- Friendship
- First love
- Becoming visible
Strong fit for upper secondary school programmes on identity, mental health and the social-emotional curriculum. Discussion guide forthcoming.
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Get in touch“She had been the room’s reader for so long, she had forgotten she was also in it.”
— First draft, page one