They never bash Mormonism, and instead had the two very different characters of Tanner and Sebastian find middle ground on the subject. Christina Lauren do a fantastic job balancing the religious themes and LGBT+ themes. I was hesitant to read it– having grown up as bi in a very Christian town makes this hit a little close to home– but I ended up loving the religious setting of this book more than I could have ever imagined. This book takes place in a very Mormon town in Utah. “You have so much space in your heart for your church, but does it have space for you?” Sebastian becomes Tanner’s muse, but falling for him only causes problems when he’s all Tanner can think– or write– about. Sebastian is a devout Mormon, and there to mentor the class since the novel he wrote during the Seminar is about to be published. When he begins a class known as the Seminar, where students must draft a novel in four months, he meets Sebastian Brother. Content Warning: Mature Content, Homophobia //Īutoboyography follows Tanner Scott as he moves from California to Utah, and from out of the closet as bi… to back in. “A God worthy of your eternal love wouldn’t judge you for who you love while you’re here.” The author also suggests the need for further research exploring the implementation and benefits of literacy practices that take into account newly arrived students’ identities holistically.Review In A Nutshell: Autoboyography is an extremely well-done contemporary that is sure to steal your heart. Students like Marlón are a growing demographic thus, the author calls for teachers to consider the benefits of creating instructional spaces for low‐risk, low‐tech writing to ease transnational, emergent multilingual students into classroom and school‐based writing. In the process, Marlón created an agentive border space that spanned cultures, nations, and languages in ways that authentically represented his multifaceted and complex identity and lived history. As such, the author demonstrates how the relatively low‐stakes, low‐tech, dialogic nature of journaling afforded Marlón the opportunity to create a transborder writing space in which he enacted agency in his decisions to translanguage, engage in multimodal writing, invoke familial knowledge, and share personal experiences. The author shows how Marlón, a newly arrived immigrant from Guatemala, leveraged existing bodies of linguistic, content, and experiential knowledge to maximize his participation in the classroom‐based literacy practice of dialogue journaling. Centering the literacy practice of a newly arrived, transnational, emergent multilingual student, the author provides insights into how these students, particularly when positioned as lacking literacy and content knowledge when labeled as students with interrupted formal education, might benefit socioemotionally and educationally from the opportunity to story their own lives and write their way.

Autoboyography by christina lauren