{"id":267,"date":"2009-07-16T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:26:12","slug":"say-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/267","title":{"rendered":"Say the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span><span><span>Garsee, Jeannine.<span> <\/span><em>Say the Word.<\/em><span> <\/span>2009.<span> <\/span>360p.<span> <\/span>Bloomsbury, $16.99.<span> <\/span>(978-1-599990-333-0).<span> <\/span>Gr.  11-12:<span> <\/span>The \u201cperfect\u201d Shawna  Gallagher finds her life turned upside down when she is 17 after her estranged  lesbian mother dies and she discovers a family in the mother\u2019s partner and two  sons.<span> The book covers a lot of  ground<\/span>\u2014religion (Shawna is Roman Catholic and mother is transitioning  into Judaism complete with kosher culture); lesbian lack of rights (the mother\u2019s  partner loses everything because the mother didn\u2019t leave a will and they weren\u2019t  legally married); freakish control from a wealthy father who gives her  everything and nothing; struggle with sexual attraction (Shawna gets tied up  with ex-best friend\u2019s twin who just wants to use her); need for family; domestic  violence (one of the \u201csons\u201d is actually the biological son of Shawna\u2019s father  after he raped her mother); first love (Shawna\u2019s attraction for the son of her  mother\u2019s partner); shame (Shawna\u2019s aunt is seriously homophobic); depression  (the younger boy wants to kill himself because he cannot live with the woman he  has always known as his mother).<span> <\/span> Writing moves evenly and the characters are nicely drawn\u2014no stereotypes and lots  of confusion&#8211;in this\u00a0good look at children\u2019s problems when their parents  change from being hetero to homosexual.&#8211;Nel Ward<span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garsee, Jeannine. Say the Word. 2009. 360p. Bloomsbury, $16.99. (978-1-599990-333-0). Gr. 11-12: The \u201cperfect\u201d Shawna Gallagher finds her life turned upside down when she is 17 after her estranged lesbian mother dies and she discovers a family in the mother\u2019s partner and two sons. The book covers a lot of ground\u2014religion (Shawna is Roman Catholic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}