The Shoreline: A YA Trans Coming-of-age Short (The Alex Series Book 1)

This is a story about a vacation. About getting lost at sea. About a girl who wasn’t really a girl. And about a pair of red swim trunks that, somehow, saved her life. Alex isn’t sure what she is, not yet. But when a family vacation to Maui puts her in a swimsuit that doesn’t feel right, a kayak that drifts out to sea, and a friendship with a girl who sees her as him, something begins to shift. Over the course of a single week, between crashing waves, sunburns, and too many unspoken words, Alex starts to notice the quiet ache of being misunderstood… and the surprising peace of being seen. Tender, sharp, and painfully real, The Shoreline is a coming-of-age short story and prequel to The Inbetween that captures what it’s like to feel like a stranger in your own skin—and the first time you wonder if maybe… you were never wrong to begin with. View Less