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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a 2015 young adult novel [1] and the debut book by American author Becky Albertalli. [2] The coming-of-age story focuses on its titular protagonist Simon Spier, a closeted, gay, high school-aged boy who is forced to come out after a blackmailer discovers Simon's emails written to another closeted classmate with whom he has fallen in love.
- Becky Albertalli
- 2015
Apr 7, 2015 · Reading this book is the most homely experience in the world. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda was one of the early LGBTQ+ books that I've read. I was sixteen-years-old, three years removed from recognizing and embracing my own queerness, but I will forever associate this story with the genuine and inexplicable feeling of connection, the comfort of realizing the world stretches far longer ...
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Full Title: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. When Written: 2013-14. Where Written: Atlanta, GA. When Published: 2015. Literary Period: Contemporary. Genre: Young adult fiction. Setting: The fictional town of Shady Creek, Georgia (based off of the real-life town of Sandy Springs, Georgia) Climax: Simon discovers at the carnival that Blue is ...
Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda relates the coming out and first love of Simon, a student at Creekwood High School in mid-2010s suburban Atlanta. The narrative is told from Simon’s first-person point-of-view, as well as through epistolary chapters made up of emails between Simon and his anonymous correspondent, Blue.
Aug 11, 2021 · Becky Albertalli’s best-selling debut novel, long-listed for a 2015 National Book Award, is about a teenager named Simon and the flirty emails he’s been writing to an anonymous male stranger ...
Aug 11, 2021 · Simon is desperate to keep his sexuality to himself, so when the messages are discovered by a classmate, he becomes the subject of a blackmailing scheme, a major stress to balance with his growing ...
Becky Albertalli. Becky Albertalli is the author of William C. Morris Award winner and National Book Award longlist title Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (now a major motion picture, Love, Simon), the acclaimed The Upside of Unrequited; and the New York Times bestsellers Leah on the Offbeat; Love, Creekwood; What If It's Us (co-written with ...
