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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Names: Siegert, Mia, 1985– author.

Title: Somebody told me / by Mia Siegert.

Description: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, [2020] | Summary: After an assault at an anime convention, bigender seventeen-year-old Aleks/Alexis moves in with their uncle, a Catholic priest, and decides to help strangers anonymously after overhearing parishioners’ confessions.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019008525| ISBN 9781541578197 (th : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781541582255 (EB pdf.)

Subjects: | CYAC: Gender identity—Fiction. | Sexual abuse—Fiction. | Priests—Fiction. | Forgiveness—Fiction. | Self-esteem—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S536 So 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

 

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