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The Art of Being Normal
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The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson is a 2015 novel about a closeted 14-year old trans girl who befriends the new boy at her school.Kate Piper is a fourteen year old Transgender girl who cannot bring herself to come out to her family. Her two only friends know and support her through and through, but she is seen as an outcast at school. Kate believes she will never truly be happy in her own skin, but the arrival of a mysterious new student soon changes everything. Leo Denton, transferred to Eden Park from the local 'sink school' of Cloverdale for unknown 'special reasons', just wants to be left alone. But the day he rescues Kate from a public hazing marks the start of a tentative friendship. And Leo may or may not have a secret of his own... | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: After sniping at each other for most of the book, Kate and Livvy have a very sweet moment at the dance, where Kate comforts her little sister after she has a fight with her best friend. | |
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Memento MacGuffin | |
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Memento Macguffin: Leo's only photograph of his father. | |
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Half-Identical Twins | |
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Half-Identical Twins: An interesting case here: Amber and Leo were born a set of identical twin girls, but Leo (originally christened Megan) never identified as such. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Tia is seen as this by Leo most of the time, but he loves her very much. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Kate and her little sister Livvy both see their parents as this. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Leo gets a case of this after his disastrous reunion with his father. | |
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Heroes Love Dogs | |
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Heroes Love Dogs: Applies to Leo, who momentarily drops the tough guy act when he meets Kate's dog Phil. | |
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Go-Getter Girl | |
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Similarly, popular Go-Getter Girl Alicia Baker develops an interest in standoffish grump Leo Denton. | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: Harry Beaumont has been tormenting Kate since they were small children. Alex Bonner is a darker example towards Leo. | |
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The Cutie | |
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The Cutie: Tia is a cheerful toddler who loves Disney princess movies, likes to wear fairy wings around the house, and adores her big brother. | |
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Childhood Friends | |
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Childhood Friends: Kate, Essie and Felix. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Lexi Taylor, and later in the story Becky Somerville. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Kate's "inspection notebook", which she uses to keep track of the changes her body goes through. She accidentally stuffs it into her school bag, only to have it taken fom her by Harry Beaumont at the cafeteria. Leo intervenes before Harry can out her, which kicks off a major part of the plot. | |
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Ordinary High-School Student | |
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Ordinary High-School Student: Well, Junior High, but the narration goes to great lengths to hammer into the reader just how painfully ordinary Kate is, demonstrated by an informed lack of talent in a lot of things, like maths, singing, sewing... which considering that the narrator for the most part is Kate, might also just be self deprecation. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Leo's mother story, which is brought up so frequently that you'd think the events of the book are building to some great, shocking reveal... which in the end never happens. | |
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Birthday Hater | |
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Birthday Hater: Kate, whose fourteenth birthday is when begins the story proper. Each birthday only serves as a reminder that she is running out of time before she starts going through puberty, which would make it more difficult for her to physically pass as female. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad : Leo has never met his birth father, and believes his mother drove him away. He's wrong. | |
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I Am Not Pretty | |
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I Am Not Pretty: Poor Kate... | |
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Unsettling Gender-Reveal | |
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Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Specifically unsettling biological sex reveal, since Leo is transgender. He is forced to come out to Alicia when he runs out of excuses for why he can't have sex with her. The shock of the reveal causes Alicia to not speak to Leo for weeks. | |
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Missing Child | |
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Missing Child: Imagine being in Leo's mother's shoes when he leaves for Kent: her son, with whom she already has a strained relationship, goes missing right after they have a spat, and she has absolutely no way of knowing whether he's even alive or not. You can only imagine what was going through the poor woman's head, especially since Leo was already attacked once. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: She brings it up exactly once, but Essie seems to ship Kate/Leo. | |
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Family Eye Resemblance | |
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Family Eye Resemblance: Leo and Amber have their father's unusual eyes, sea green with amber flecks. When Leo meets his younger half-brother, he notes that the boy also inherited Jonathan's eyes. | |
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Third Wheel | |
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Third Wheel: Kate can't help but inevitably feel this way around Essie and Felix. | |
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Forced Out of the Closet | |
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Forced Out of the Closet: Leo comes out as trans to his crush Alicia, but she rejects him. Alicia's friends find out his secret and out him to the entire school. | |
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The Greatest Story Never Told | |
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The Greatest Story Never Told: Leo's mother's story is alluded to all through the book, but we only get bits of it from Kerry. | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses: Felix wears glasses and is easily the brainiac of the trio he forms with Kate and Essie. | |
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True Blue Femininity | |
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True Blue Femininity: Kate wears a lovely, periwinkle blue gown to the dance. | |
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Homophobic Hate Crime | |
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Homophobic Hate Crime: Leo is a trans boy who transferred schools because of a hate crime. A few people at his school led him into the woods, slashed his clothes, and tried to shred off his chest binder. | |
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Transparent Closet | |
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Transparent Closet: Mr and Mrs Piper have suspected Kate of being in the closet for a long time, and hint many times that it is safe to come out to them. The problem is that Kate knows full well that they've got the wrong end of the stick, and can't bring herself to tell them the truth. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Leo's mother. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: Kate almost says this word for word to Leo at the Mermaid Inn in Tripton. He disagrees. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: The main message of the story. | |
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Trans Relationship Troubles | |
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Trans Relationship Troubles: Leo gets rejected by his crush after coming out and then gets Forced Out of the Closet by his crush's friends. | |
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Polar Opposite Twins | |
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Polar Opposite Twins: Leo is a grump while his twin sister Amber is more carefree; Where their Disappeared Dad is concerned, Leo is an idealist while Amber is a realist. | |
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Their First Time | |
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Their First Time: Alicia attempts to initiate this between herself and Leo on Bonfire Night. Leo is then forced to come out to her. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "I was born a girl." | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Becky Somerville deliberately provokes Leo with a transphobic slur and revels in the fact that he can't retaliate without getting into trouble. | |
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Tears of Joy | |
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Tears of Joy: Essie when she sees her best friend Kate in her ballgown. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Harry makes Kate's life hell on a daily basis, but almost outs her the one time she dares to fight back - and for something she did unintentionally. | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": Do not call Leo Megan. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Leo's mother is "tiny, built like a sparrow" but beat up Annette Bonner who, according to Leo at least, looks like The Terminator. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: Kate, a closeted transgender girl, is mistaken for a gay boy by her parents, by Leo, and by most people in general. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Invoked word-for-word by Kerry after Leo finally comes home after having been missing for two days. | |
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Just Friends | |
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Just Friends: Kate and Leo, in spite of Essie's assumption that Kate fancies Leo. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Kate teeters on the edge of coming out to her parents multiple times, but simply cannot bring herself to do it. | |
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Coax Them Out of the Closet | |
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Coax Them Out of the Closet: Kate's parents have been at this for a while, especially Kate's mother, though they are under the impression that their child is a closeted gay boy. Once their trans daughter does come out to them, they try to the best of their abilities to understand and make it clear that under no circumstances will they ever love her any less. | |
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Mentor in Queerness | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_69c52d1a | comment |
Mentor in Queerness: In a way, more experienced Leo is this to closeted Kate since he is the only other trans person she has ever met. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Leo's jaded mother isn't wrong to warn her children that life isn't always fair, but could go about it in a different manner. She definitely wasn't lying about the twins' father abandoning her. | |
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Coming-Out Story | |
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Coming-Out Story: Kate is a trans girl who wants to be out but is too scared to come out of the closet. Leo is a trans boy. | |
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Opposites Attract | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_711714da | comment |
Opposites Attract: Essie is a high energy punk rocker; Felix is a softspoken geek with lots of allergies. And yet, they are an Official Couple right from the get go. Similarly, popular Go-Getter Girl Alicia Baker develops an interest in standoffish grump Leo Denton. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: The primary motive for all the bullying dished out on Kate and Leo essentially boils down to homophobia and transphobia. | |
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Token Minority | |
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Token Minority: Alicia Baker is one of few black students at Eden Park school. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
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The Unfavorite: Poor Kate sees herself as this compared to her pretty, well-adjusted little sister Livvy. | |
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Satellite Love Interest | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_835d1cd2 | comment |
Satellite Love Interest: Zachary Olsen doesn't get much characterization outside of existing as Kate's handsome, popular crush who doesn't seem aware that she even exists, nor does he get any lines of dialogue. She's over him by the end of the story. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_868409c | comment |
Broken Pedestal: Leo, who has never met his father, idealizes him as a dashing adventurer, who he is certain misses Leo just as much as Leo misses him. When he finally does meet him, it transpires that Jonathan Denton has a whole new life as an upper middle class family man, and wants absolutely nothing to do with Leo. | |
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Wrong Side of the Tracks | |
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Wrong Side of the Tracks: Brought up word for word by Leo, who is from Cloverdale, which is definitely more working-class than the gentrified Eden Park (see also Uptown Girl). | |
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Parental Sexuality Squick | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_89cf0914 | comment |
Parental Sexuality Squick: Kate briefly mentions having bumped into one or both of her parents naked in the middle of the night "enough times to be scarred for life". Similarly Leo isn't too fond of his mother's excessive PDA with her boyfriend. | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_8a1215e0 | comment |
Bratty Teenage Daughter: More like preteenage, but Livvy Piper comes off as this a lot of the time, and she rarely has anything nice to say to or about Kate. | |
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Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl | |
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Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Felix and Essie, Leo and Kate. | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_8f612013 | comment |
Token Good Teammate: Alicia Baker to her popular Girl Posse. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Harry Beaumont is two seconds away from publically outing Kate in the middle of the school cafeteria when Leo intervenes and breaks his nose. | |
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Friendly Scheming | |
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Friendly Scheming: Essie, Felix and Leo secretly organize an alternative school dance just so Kate and other outcast kids can actually have a good time, and they even get Kate a dress, makeup and shoes to wear. | |
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Cool-Down Hug | |
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Cool-Down Hug: Kate gives one to Leo after he gets coldly rejected by his father. | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Felix and Essie; Leo and Kate for obvious reasons. | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_9f970427 | comment |
Secret-Keeper: Essie and Felix to Kate; Kate becomes this to Leo. | |
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Good Parents | |
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Good Parents: Mr and Mrs Piper, who desperately wish Kate would open up to them. They sweetly extend this kindness to Leo. They're in on the plan to take Kate to a prom where she can be her true self, and her mother even does her makeup and hair for her. | |
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Dance Party Ending | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_a3c0c1df | comment |
Dance Party Ending: Just before the epilogue. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Becky Somerville never gets her comeuppance for outing Leo to the entire school. Unless you count Alicia not speaking to her anymore. And the school taking proper action to raise awareness for Transgender Identity. That'd be pretty humiliating after what she did. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: Spike, whose real name is Kevin. Also Leo's dad Jimmy, which as it turns out is short for Jonathan and not James. | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver: The Eden Park student body, who have apparently never heard of transgender identity, think that Leo is this, making Alicia Sweet on Polly Oliver by association. | |
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Open-Minded Parent | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_aa6043ca | comment |
Open-Minded Parent: Kate says her parents believe themselves to be this, and they are actually very accepting of what they (mistakenly) think their child's big secret is. Bless their hearts, they try their best with all their might to be supportive when Kate's coming out doesn't exactly turn out the way they expected it to. For all the things that Leo and his mother disagree on, his gender identity isn't one of them. | |
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What Beautiful Eyes! | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_adf84dea | comment |
What Beautiful Eyes!: Used platonically when Kate meets Leo. Kate monologues that Leo's eyes are "beautiful, hypnotic, like looking through a kaleidoscope almost—sea green with amber flecks around the pupils". The rest of the female student body certainly isn't immune. | |
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Genki Girl | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_b2f26025 | comment |
Genki Girl: Kate is this when allowed to be her true self. She seems to get it from her mother. | |
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The Ace | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Both Zachary Olsen and Alicia Baker are popular, attractive and talented in what they both do, respectively sports and music. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
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Maybe Ever After: Alicia unexpectedly shows up to Leo's house on Boxing Day to apologize to him, and he agrees to start over as friends. | |
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Perky Goth | |
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Perky Goth: Essie, a hot blooded girl who is described as wearing a lot of eyeliner, black nail polish and has a predilection for dyeing her hair a different color every three months or so, sounds like she is probably this. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Kate's parents are this, in sharp contrast to Leo's single parent household. | |
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Jade-Colored Glasses | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_c2e2a445 | comment |
Jade-Colored Glasses: Leo's mother has these on at all times. Ironically, she plays a lot of bingo. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_c3286b8e | comment |
Uptown Girl: Alicia is from a much wealthier background than her crush Leo (see also Wrong Side of the Tracks). | |
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Nice Guy | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Leo's mother's new boyfriend Spike is nothing but kind and friendly towards Leo and his sisters, even though the former openly and persistently dislikes him. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_c5fe6c81 | comment |
Strong Family Resemblance: Leo is pretty much a carbon copy of his Disappeared Dad. Kate also takes after her own father; understandably, she's not happy about it. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Kate got a Gossip Girl set for her fourteenth birthday. Kate likes shows like Project Runway and America's Next Top Model. Kate's parents once went to a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert. Kim Kardashian, Brad Pitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Justin Bieber and John Travolta are mentioned. Essie makes an obvious one when she, Felix and Leo surprise Kate with the party of a lifetime. Kate even gets to wear a beautiful blue gown and silver shoes. On a meta level, and reportedly unitentionally, the two protagonists share their names with an iconic Hollywood duo. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Kate's father's name is never said, though her mother's name is Jo. Similarly Leo's father Jimmy/Jonathan's name is brought up frequently, but his mother's name (Samantha) only finally shows up in the second half of the book. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Leo's mother claims his father abandoned her when she was still pregnant, which Leo scoffs at. This unfortunately turns out to be true. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_d1affec1 | comment |
That Came Out Wrong: Seeking to praise Kate on her bravery, poor Simon Allen tells her that she's 'got proper balls'. He realizes the very next second that that wasn't at all the right thing to say, and immediately corrects himself. Kate is taken aback, and quite touched. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Leo gets one from his aunt Kerry upon returning from his brief escapade to Kent. | |
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Hypocrite | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Lexi Taylor calls Kate "Freakshow" on the regular, but gets offended the one time she retaliates with a tame "Bubble Brain". | |
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Cheerful Child | |
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Cheerful Child: Tia. | |
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Struggling Single Mother | |
| The Art of Being Normal / int_d6f544aa | comment |
Struggling Single Mother: Leo's mother has three children to provide for but works at a launderette, not to mention that it is her third job of the month at the time the story starts. | |
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You | |
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: What Leo firmly believes for most of the book, but ultimately and heart-breakingly subverted. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Leo certainly isn't a Bad Boy per se, but is perceived as this among the Eden Park girls once they start noticing how attractive he is. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
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Inelegant Blubbering: Runs in the Piper family. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr Toolan, head teacher at Eden Park school, has a zero tolerance policy on physical violence, though he doesn't appear to do much where verbal bullying is concerned. He is aware of why Leo was transferred. After Leo is outed, Mr Toolan quickly springs into action. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Kerry reveals that Leo's mother personally went to have it out with Alex Bonner after Leo's attack in the woods. It is implied that Alex's mother Annette badmouthed Leo, which led to her getting beaten up in Alex's place. | |
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Height Angst | |
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Height Angst: Kate is 168 centimeters (5'6) and doesn't want to get any taller. She's only fourteen, so it's still possible that she'll grow more (especially if she doesn't go on hormone blockers soon). | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Harry Beaumont, Lexi Taylor, Tom Kerry, Becky Somerville, Jonathan Denton. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Leo saves Kate from her tormentor only to have all three of them stuck in detention, Leo for punching Harry, Harry for instigating the fight in the first place, and Kate for making Harry bite his own tongue when she elbowed him in the face in self defence. | |
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Crash-Into Hello | |
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Crash-Into Hello: Leo and Alicia's Meet Cute. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: The story begins with the protagonist recalling a class project from back when she was eight years old. The kids wrote about what they wanted to be when they grow up. Kate wrote that she wanted to be a girl. The flashback stops there, but it's not hard to guess what happened afterwards. | |
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Anger Born of Worry | |
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Anger Born of Worry: Aunt Kerry gives Leo a slap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after having been missing for two days. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Kate and Leo, while they grow very close, are more likely to become this than a couple. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Kate finally gains the courage to come out to her parents and live her truth, and is much happier as a result. Leo finally moves on with his life, and gets to relax and trust people for a change. | |
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Beta Bitch | |
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Beta Bitch: Ruby Webber to Becky Somerville. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: Though this is never outright stated, Leo's classmates are heavily implied to have had such intentions when they attacked him in the woods. What really cements it is this absolutely stomach turning line: | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: Leo's twin sister Amber. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Kate and Leo discuss the upcoming Christmas Ball. When Leo asks what it consists of exactly, Kate innocently asks him "You didn't have balls at Cloverdale?", causing Leo to snort. Doubles as very subtle foreshadowing when it turns out that Leo is trans. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Though Livvy's status as Kate's bratty younger sister is established pretty early on, she still gives her big sister a nice and thoughtful birthday present. | |
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