Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill by Lee Wind
Release date: October 2, 2018
Page Count: 300 pages
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Synopsis
“A tapestry of the gay teenage experience—frayed edges repaired with earnest love and care.” —Kirkus Reviews
Wyatt is fifteen, and nobody in his homophobic small town of Lincolnville, Oregon, knows that he’s gay. Not even his best friend (and accidental girlfriend) Mackenzie.
Then he discovers a secret from actual history: Abraham Lincoln was in love with another guy! Since everyone loves Lincoln, Wyatt’s sure that if the world knew about it, they would treat gay people differently and it would solve everything about his life. So Wyatt outs Lincoln online, triggering a media firestorm that threatens to destroy everything he cares about.
Now he has to pretend more than ever that he’s straight (because no one will ever believe a gay kid saying Lincoln is gay.) Only then he meets Martin, who is openly gay and who just might be the guy Wyatt’s been hoping to find.
This nineteenth-and-twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming out story was inspired by real historical evidence that Abraham Lincoln was in love—romantic love—with another man. QUEER AS A FIVE-DOLLAR BILLasks LGBTQ teens (and everyone else), What if you knew a secret from history that could change the world?
Wyatt is fifteen, and nobody in his homophobic small town of Lincolnville, Oregon, knows that he’s gay. Not even his best friend (and accidental girlfriend) Mackenzie.
Then he discovers a secret from actual history: Abraham Lincoln was in love with another guy! Since everyone loves Lincoln, Wyatt’s sure that if the world knew about it, they would treat gay people differently and it would solve everything about his life. So Wyatt outs Lincoln online, triggering a media firestorm that threatens to destroy everything he cares about.
Now he has to pretend more than ever that he’s straight (because no one will ever believe a gay kid saying Lincoln is gay.) Only then he meets Martin, who is openly gay and who just might be the guy Wyatt’s been hoping to find.
This nineteenth-and-twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming out story was inspired by real historical evidence that Abraham Lincoln was in love—romantic love—with another man. QUEER AS A FIVE-DOLLAR BILLasks LGBTQ teens (and everyone else), What if you knew a secret from history that could change the world?
Review
I really enjoyed this book even though I'm not a huge fan of YA.
I love that its real history and book is just an interpretation of it. Wyatt was really brave it putting out the blog. I loved all the characters. His coming out is one I dream about.
With the Star Wars references and Lincoln's real letters, I really loved reading this book. It tells an important message, that we are all equal. And that maybe if one the major characters of history was queer, then the world might be more accepting.
*Provided by the Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
I love that its real history and book is just an interpretation of it. Wyatt was really brave it putting out the blog. I loved all the characters. His coming out is one I dream about.
With the Star Wars references and Lincoln's real letters, I really loved reading this book. It tells an important message, that we are all equal. And that maybe if one the major characters of history was queer, then the world might be more accepting.
*Provided by the Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
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