Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
By Tanya Boteju
Lavender Lit Book Club: May 2022
The Lavender Lit Book Club is a monthly literature series hosted by Women’s Program Curator Suyane Oliveira. Each month, we’ll be reading a new book by a queer woman or non-male author to celebrate queer women and non-men in literature. Click here to learn more.
Book Discussion
May 18, 2022 | 6:30p (EST)
Author Talk
May 26, 2022 | 6:30p (EST)
About the Book
”Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love with her straight girlfriend, and trying to move past her mother’s unexpected departure. After a bewildering encounter at a local festival, Nima finds herself suddenly immersed in the drag scene on the other side of town.
Macho drag kings, magical queens, new love interests, and surprising allies propel Nima both painfully and hilariously closer to a self she never knew she could be—one that can confidently express and accept love. But she’ll have to learn to accept lost love to get there.” – Goodreads
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About the Author
Tanya Boteju (she/her)
Tanya Boteju is a teacher and writer living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). Part-time, she teaches English to clever and sassy young people. The rest of her time, she writes and procrastinates from writing. Her novel, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens (Simon & Schuster, 2019), was named a Top Ten Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association. Her new YA novel, Bruised (Simon & Schuster, 2021), has been selected as a Gold Standard book by the Junior Library Guild and a 2022 Rainbow List Book by the American Library Association. In both teaching and writing, she is committed to complex, diverse representation. Visit her at tanyaboteju.com.