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Girl Meets Boy
by Ali Smith
First Published
2009
Subjects
Fiction
Literature
Fiction, general
Fiction, romance, fantasy
Man-woman relationships, fiction
Greek Mythology
Sex change
Parent and child, fiction
Gender transition
Hormone therapy
Gender reassignment surgery
Description
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.