PublishedArsenal Pulp Press, December 2014 |
ISBN9781551525747 |
FormatSoftcover, 175 pages |
Dimensions20.3cm × 14cm |
Age range 16 and up
Inspired by a true story, When Everything Feels like the Movies is an edgy, extravagant novel for young people and others, full of gender-bending teen glamour, dark mischief, and enough melodrama to incite the paparazzi. A boy who smells like Chanel Mademoiselle, calls Blair Waldorf his biggest childhood influence, and reads Old Hollywood star biographies like gospel doesn't have the easiest path to travel in life, but somehow, Jude paves his road with yellow bricks and makes us all wish we could join him over the rainbow.
Breaking News (November 18): Raziel Reid has won the $25,000 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature, the oldest and arguably the most prestigious literary award in Canada, for his debut young-adult novel When Everything Feels like The Movies. At the age of twenty-four, Raziel becomes the youngest ever winner in the children's books categories (text or illustration).
Of Raziel's book, the awards jury reported:
"An edgy and uneasy story with no simple resolutions, Raziel Reid's When Everything Feels like the Movies is unflinching. An openly gay teen in a small-minded town, Jude Rothesay's fantasy life is a movie but his real life isn't. He is audacious, creative, rude, often hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking. He's unforgettable."
Read the Canadian Press interview with Raziel on his award.
