Just Ash, Sol Santana
Just Ash, Sol Santana
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Just Ash

Author: Sol Santana

Narrator: Avi Roque

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/05/2021


Synopsis

Ashley "Ash" Bishop has always known who he is: a guy who loves soccer, has a crush on his friend Michelle, and is fascinated by the gruesome history of his hometown?Salem, Massachusetts. He's also always known that he's intersex, born with both male and female genitalia. But it's never felt like a big deal until his junior year of high school, when Ash gets his first period in front of the entire boys' soccer team. Now his friends and teachers see him differently, and his own mother thinks he should "try being a girl."

As tensions mount with his parents and Ash feels more and more like an outcast, he can't help feeling a deeper kinship with his ancestor Bridget Bishop, who was executed for witchcraft. She didn't conform to her community's expectations either; she was different, and her neighbors felt threatened by her. And she paid the ultimate price. Ash is haunted by her last recorded words: You will keep silent.

Ash realizes that he needs to find a way to stand up for who he really is, or the cost of his silence might destroy his life, too.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke

LGBTQ and then I always add a plus. It’s merely to make it easy on myself but I shouldn’t. The I and A are as important. Just Ash is about an intersex boy and although I’ve read countless queer stories, I never read a story with an intersex MC written by an ownvoices. Ash is a sixteen-year-old boy w......more

Just Ash is a wonderful young adult story about an intersex teen. This Sol Santana had me gripped from the start. Good god, Poor Ash. His body causes so much pain and heartache for him, just because of people being so damn judgmental. Omg, this book. There's so much going on for Ash, as puberty is c......more

Goodreads review by Colleen

2.25 Stars. I think this rating was more like a disappointment one than anything else. This book stars an intersex person who identifies as male, but his body just decides to feminize itself after he hits puberty. He's then ostracized and bullied at home and school, and his only friend, Michelle can......more