We see her struggle with coming to terms with her identity trying to find a way to tell Eric and her dad. We soon learn that Morgan is transgender, but she hasn’t come out to anyone yet.
Each chapter alternates between Eric’s and Morgan’s narrative, so we hear the story from their first-person perspectives. We re-visit Eric and Morgan on their birthday each year the books starts on their thirteenth and ends on their eighteenth birthday. They were born at the same hospital on the same day, and their families have been friends ever since. I found it in our local Little Free Library book exchange and am so glad that I picked it up.īirthday is a coming-of-age YA romance novel, based around two best mates, Eric and Morgan. Here’s to love and being loved no matter who you are.I’ve been enjoying a phase of reading lots of YA fiction recently, and that trend has continued with Birthday by Meredith Russo. Just at 18 years old, these two kids fall in love and accept themselves for who they are and find their true passions outside of what people expect of them which everyone should learn as soon as possible because ‘no one is you and that is your superpower.’ I saw that on Pinterest once. However, she has the best friend ever because Eric is so nice, and patient and understanding without a blink in his eye and totally accepts Morgan for who she is. Starting at 13 years old, we see Morgan struggle for five years about being a girl in a boy’s body waiting impatiently for her to be herself.
Morgan’s family is quiet after the loss of his mother, all he has is his dad who has yet to cope and doesn’t know how to communicate with his child leaving Morgan feeling especially lonely. Eric’s family is macho ruled by their dad: being the best at sports and no crying. Let everyone live and love, life is already plenty complicated by itself-amirite? However, in Birthday after the tears, secrets and suicide attempt, everything settled into place because of L O V E!Įric and Morgan (born as boys) have been bffs since literal birth and no matter what they always celebrate their birthdays together (except when Eric got the chicken pox). It’s 2019, and the fact people still have to fight or hide to be who they are is disconcerting. This is the first book I’ve read about transgender and I wasn’t disappointed but not completely convinced either. It took me a while to write a review of Birthday by Meredith Russo because I couldn’t figure out how I felt.
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