I got my heart inside a loom

[sovay]

I start my week again with no sleep. I am having a lot of trouble just existing right now.

Internet hivemind, does anyone have books to recommend for a fourteen-year-old who has just come out as bi and is looking for congenial literature? She reads science fiction and mainstream fiction but not really fantasy, so naturally most of the examples coming to my mind of bisexual main characters or societies where bisexuality is normative are in the wrong genre. I am planning to suggest Ursula K. Le Guin and Phyllis Gotlieb [edit: and Yoon Ha Lee!] and I have no idea what middle-grade/YA looks like these days.

Comments

[skygiants]

The Steerswoman books are stealth science fiction masquerading as fantasy! Which is a spoiler, but also potentially the kind of spoiler that sells one on a book.

[alexxkay]

Arguably *Hard* SF, even. Among my favorites, though not especially bi-ful, as I recall. Also, a series with an odd relationship to the concept of "spoilers", since one of its frequent joys (for me) is in seeing the protagonist work out something I (and, I think, the general SF reader) realized many chapters earlier.