Wandering Son: Book Six (Hardback)

Description

Takako continues his sensitive and charming series dealing with transexualism, gender identity and puberty. The success of their performance of The Rose of Versailles in the fifth grade – in which the boys played the women and the girls played the men – inspires our protagonists to put on another gender-bending play for the junior-high school festival. This time they do a riff on Romeo and Juliet, with generous helpings of fantasy and mystery. And, with tensions and crushes plaguing the production, the cast is to be decided by fate, with names drawn randomly.