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Michael Manosca

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Gay and Lesbian, Young Adult, Fiction

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Michael Manosca writes about the people others are uneasy mentioning — the ones who are gay, or don't quite fit, or carry some small difference that makes a stranger smile and keep walking. He writes them because he has been one of them, and because somewhere along the way he learned the truth his books keep circling back to: family is not always the people you are born to. It is whoever steps up and says I want you here.

Every novel he has written grows from someone real — a friend, a stranger, a version of himself, a man he loved. He doesn't write to be an author. He writes so that one person, somewhere, might open a book and find themselves inside it — and understand that for all the ways we talk ourselves into being alone, almost none of ...more

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	Flickering by Michael Manosca (Goodreads Author), Regena Slater (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Thing No One Noticed

A year after I wrote A Language of Water, and months after it went out into the world, I found a flaw in it.

Not a typo. Those I can forgive as they slip through the tightest net, and a reader's eye mends them almost before it registers them. This was something else. A seam. A place where the story said the same hard thing twice, and another where I let the book name a wound before it had earned th Read more of this blog post »

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Soul Eater (Monstrous, #1)

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