Now there’s a way to directly enable these efforts. Support the Independent by making a direct contribution or with a subscription to Indy+. The novel’s insights into what closeted individuals go through deepens now that we understand that Albertalli’s personal experience is in between the lines.Įvery day, the staff of the Santa Barbara Independent works hard to sort out truth from rumor and keep you informed of what’s happening across the entire Santa Barbara community. Well, now we know, and the book reads even better for it. People wanted to know how this married mother from Atlanta knew enough to write such an insightful book about the closet. When the book became the hit movie Love, Simon in 2018, the pressure increased. the Homo Sapiens Agenda hits the shelves, about a small-town boy who’s falling in love with a male classmate via anonymous (yet emotionally revealing) emails, but isn’t yet out to his family and friends. the Homo Sapiens Agenda became a surprise hit in April 2015, Albertalli has been trolled by the #ownvoices movement, which contends that authors should only tell stories about communities to which they personally belong. The post, titled “I Know I’m Late,” responded to multiple accusations that she was profiting off of the LGBTQ+ community. Best-selling YA author Becky Albertalli rocked the publishing world on August 31 with a blog post on Medium in which she came out as bisexual.
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