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View submission: Where Is All the Sad Boy Literature?
This author, Kate Tobin, doesn't have a full profile on Esquire's webpage, so I am unsure about her whole body of work.
But to completely ignore Jason Reynolds, Jay Asher, Sherman Alexi, Gordon Korman - even fantasy authors like Rick Riordan, Orson Scott Card or Scott Westerfield - not to mention the heaps and heaps of graphic novelists from Brian Michael Bendis to Gene Luen Yang - it is silly. I already have a pretty big list here and I didn't even need to mention the proverbial elephant in the room - John Green.
There is lots of sad boys literature. The way that this is a whitewashed perspective, even though it explicitly addresses race, is just awful.
Talk to a teen serving librarian about sad boys literature, you will walk away with a stack of reads.
There's nothing here!