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A Boy Called Cin

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On the search for a cup of coffee before the guest lecture he's giving, Tom spies a tired, half-frozen young man who looks even more in need of coffee than him. On impulse, he buys the man a cup—but an attempt to strike up conversation ends in the young man walking off, seemingly put off by Tom Walford—the tabloids' favourite billionaire—buying him coffee. But when he reappears in Tom's lecture, all Tom knows is that he doesn't want the man slipping away a second time.Agreeing to dinner with a man he only knows from internet gossip columns isn't the wisest decision Cin's ever made, but he wants to like the infamous Tom Walford and he can't do that if he doesn't give the man a fair chance to be likeable. Which he is, almost frustratingly so, to the point Cin wishes maybe he hadn't been so fair because he never had any intention of getting attached to Tom, who seems to come from a world far too different from his own for anything between them to last. Little does Cin know, they've got a lot more in common than he imagines—including their shared discomfort with their assigned genders, and all the complications that go with it.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 11, 2015
      Wilde (No Straight Boys), the author of several sweet trans and genderqueer romance stories and novellas, takes much the same tack with their debut novel, which has a fairy tale setting and only quick cameos from its parental villains. Tom, a software billionaire, spots Cin, a transgender art student, huddled outside a lecture hall. Twice Cin’s age and far less socially confident, Tom nevertheless approaches the young man with a gift of coffee and gets a scathing dismissal for his pains. Tom is charmed, and soon he’s neglecting his business as he jets repeatedly to campus, gently wooing Cin and learning to articulate his own feelings of dysphoria and shame. The story is not plot-driven; Wilde’s focus is on showing a relationship in slice-of-life developments and demystifying the aura of exotic otherness that has clung to popular depictions of trans characters at least since The Crying Game. Cin’s adept verbal wit adds to the pleasure of this low-key, enjoyable novel.

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