I also think it presents the idea that people should live life for themselves and not through someone else’s eyes. This is relatable to many people in our world whether they are not accepted for being part of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) community or just unaccepted in general. Arin was in a very bad place emotionally for a long time in the novel because, at first, people did not accept that being Emerald Andrews was not who he was.
Not everyone is super popular with loads of friends, and some people do not have the happiness that others seem to possess. I really enjoyed this book because of the realism in it. Some Assembly Required is a true autobiography of Arin Andrews and his struggle of coming out as a boy to his family, who want him to be something he is not. When he came out as transgender, his mother was less than pleased. For his entire childhood, he was very masculine, which was something his mother wanted to change by putting him in beauty pageants and forcing him into dresses and makeup. He struggled with his gender even before he knew what the word transgender meant. Arin Andrews was born in the body of a girl.
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