Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #2)

by Rick Riordan

The gender thing wasn’t what surprised me. A huge percentage of the homeless teens I’d met had been assigned one gender at birth but identified as another, or they felt like the whole boy/girl binary didn’t apply to them. They ended up on the streets because – shocker – their families didn’t accept them. Nothing says ‘tough love’ like kicking your non-hetero-normative kid to the kerb so they can experience abuse, drugs, high suicide rates and constant physical danger. Thanks, Mom and Dad!

‘The older you are, the harder it is to accept that the world might not be the way you thought it was.