LUCY, UNCENSORED

Lucy Myers and her best friend, Callie Katz, go on a road trip to explore a women’s college in the hopes of finding a place where Lucy can finally be herself.

Lucy is tired of the daily transphobia she experiences at her small-town Pennsylvania high school. She imagines college as a place where she’ll be accepted as the woman she is. She and Callie plan to live out their dreams at Central University, a nearby state school with a prestigious drama program. But after attending a disastrous campus tour where two of her bullying classmates are in attendance and harass her, and then having the queer reimagining of The Tempest that she and Callie wrote censored by the school board, Lucy sets her sights on going farther afield. Botetourt, a women’s college in Virginia, is said to be LGBTQ+ friendly, but it’s unclear whether they’ve ever admitted any trans women. So the two BFFs, who are white, set off on a road trip to go see the place for themselves. The novel examines the daily microaggressions Lucy faces, while also scrutinizing institutions that claim to be inclusive. The authors balance out these serious topics with lively banter, humorous situations, and pop-culture references as readers follow Lucy on her journey to discovering how to live as her most authentic self.

Provides honest insight into the life of a trans girl who’s fighting to live her truth.