Almost exactly a year ago , all right - thinking the great unwashed were upset by the fact thata prominent literary broker told two darling author that they needed to remove a brave character from their young - grownup novel — or just wrench him directly . The right newsworthiness ? Now Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith has gotten pick up by Viking Penguin , with Yuki ’s gender entire .
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harmonise to the Guardian , the novel will come out from Viking in outpouring 2014 , with Yuki still in there , along with a lesbian dyad who are supporting fictional character . Brown assure the Guardian that they were never tempted to “ straight - laundry ” the characters because they wanted this book to be about the citizenry that most young - grownup books ordinarily leave out . And she say that she ’d heard from lots of other author and editors who reported similar attempts to remove LGBT or nonage characters from YA fabrication . allege Brown to the Guardian :
We acknowledge that while there are lots of excellent realistic book about the trouble and difficulty of being a nonage , there was very small fun , escapist fiction about teen wizards or vampires or mutants who are n’t white and true . And of what little there was , most had those characters as chum to the straight ashen protagonist . So the many teens we have sex who preferred fantasy almost never got to read about poor boy like themselves , ” she said . “ We did n’t do this to fulfil some fanciful quota , but because we want to write about teenagers like the tangible ones we lie with , [ and ] making gay character straight would have go against the intact reason why we compose the book in the first place .
And she cited a statistical analysis of American YA novels by Malinda Lo , which chance that few than 1 percent had any LGBT character , even in a support role . More details at the link . [ Guardian ]
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