Giving unparalleled insight into asexuality and asexual relationships, How To Be Ace shows the importance of learning to be happy and proud of who you are. In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themselves into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD - before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity. Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will 'grow into' as they get older, but when they leave school, start working and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don't want to have sex with other people. Me though? I was only interested in comics.' 'When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS - YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (YALSA) 2022 Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo PRISM AWARDS FINALIST 2021 I received an e-ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Also available on eBook for £9.99. I’d also recommend it as a really good graphic novel on the merits of it’s drawing and storytelling. You can read this before How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. I’d recommend this to anyone who wants to know more about asexuality and whether you are aware of it or not, whether you are on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum or not. Here is a quick description and cover image of book How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual written by Rebecca Burgess which was published in October 21st 2020. By connecting it directly to the personal experiences of the author it gives a really good perspective so it’s not just a clinical representation of what asexuality means, rather a depiction of how people feel and experience their asexuality. There are a number of books popping up in this kind of vein and this is definitely one of the better ones. It’s wonderfully drawn, easy to follow even if you’re not a comics fan, easily digestible, understandable and super relatable.Īs with most graphic novels it’s not a long read and I think it would be really useful in educational environments to educate young people on asexuality in a way that they may hopefully connect with. It was great to see representation of one of the lesser represented letters in the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. I’m a big fan of comic books/graphic novels and this one didn’t disappoint.

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