An Ordinary WonderAn extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their

It is an unequivocal

intellectual tour de force pretending to be a thriller

the passion they share is utterly unthinkable

And there’s one thing in her life she knows will never change: her friendship with her best guy friend Jamie―no matter how much she may secretly want it to

the weak and the strong

LUIS VENEGAS IS CREATIVE DIRECTOR

the Mother Superior of his boarding house

Neneh Cherry

Another in the current flood of homosexual novels

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250819091

that no matter how sincerely Mercanton tried to undo his past