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Not Straight

by Savy Leiser

A powerlifting goal meets questions of identity

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A powerlifting goal meets questions of identity

For Kyra, powerlifting is tied to more than competition: a college scholarship could offer a way out of a family life shaped by her parents’ divorce and a church-centered neighborhood. When a back injury interrupts her plans, physical therapy becomes part of a difficult recalibration, while her connection with rival-school powerlifter Simone brings another uncertainty into view. The novel brings scoliosis and disability representation together with young love, women’s sports, and a teenager’s growing understanding of her sexuality. Kyra’s athletic ambitions and personal questions unfold alongside the practical realities of recovery and the expectations surrounding her older sister’s wedding.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in LGBTQ+ coming-of-age fiction
  • Readers seeking fiction that includes disability representation and scoliosis
  • Readers interested in women’s powerlifting and athletic ambition

Themes

LGBTQ+ identity and self-discoveryDisability and recoveryWomen’s sports and ambitionFamily pressures and independence

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Book overview

Kyra's spent a lifetime dealing with scoliosis. But as it turns out, her spine isn't the only thing that's NOT STRAIGHT.

An ownvoices LGBTQ+ coming-of-age novel featuring disability representation, women's sports, and more!

 

After five horrendous years of Catholic school in a back brace, 17-year-old Kyra Maeve Donovan has finally gotten her scoliosis under control; at least, under enough control to become a star high school athlete.

 

If Kyra could just secure a college scholarship in women's powerlifting, she could finally get out of her church-obsessed neighborhood, away from her parents' nonstop divorce squabbles, and out of her perfect older sister's shadow. But when her back gives out at the state championship competition, Kyra has to face the fact that her spine might not be as strong as she thought it was.

 

Now spending the rest of her junior year in physical therapy - and hoping to recover fast enough that she's not stuck in a rock-solid back brace at her perfect older sister's wedding - Kyra just wants to recover as fast as possible and get back under the barbell.

 

But when Kyra bonds with Simone Jackson, a gorgeous powerlifter from a rival school, in physical therapy, Kyra starts to wonder if her spine isn't the only thing about her that's not straight.

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