Kacen Callender is originally from Saint Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. They are the author of the young adult novel This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story and the middle grade novel Hurricane Child. Felix Love, the title character in Kacen Callender’s Felix Ever After (Balzer + Bray) has never been in loveāand, yes, heās painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what itās like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. Whatās worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that heās one marginalization too manyāBlack, queer, and transgenderāto ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messagesāafter publicly posting Felixās deadname alongside images of him before he transitionedāFelix comes up with a revenge plan. But he didnāt expect it would land him in a quasiālove triangle and a journey of questioning and self-discovery that would help redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself. In a starred review Publishers Weekly praised it as a “top-notch depiction of a messy, complicated, romantic young artist navigating the bumpy road to self-love and self-determination ā¦ā
October 3, 2023
Kacen Callender
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Kacen Callender is originally from Saint Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. They are the author of the young adult novel This Is Kind