Recommendation: What Happened to Lani Garver
A reader recommends…
What Happened to Lani Garver
A Novel
A Novel
This is a fantastic story, probably my favorite book of all time. It takes place in a small town, containing a limited population with limited openness. It unravels a tale about a young cancer victim named Claire and her encounter with a strange ‘boy’ named Lani. Eventually, the two become friends, and between a potential recurrence of Claire’s disease and the conflict between Lani and gay-bashing highschoolers, a beautiful, sad, and inspiring story reveals itself to the reader. It teaches a life-altering lesson: “be kind to everyone, because you never know when you’re meeting an angel.”
Posted by Zory on October 18th, 2009 at 08:00 am
Category: books, recommendations 8 comments »
October 18th, 2009 at 9:23 am |
Synchronicity! I packed up my bookshelves yesterday and came across this book, and totally woke up this morning intending to write a recommendation of it for Genderfork, because I love me some genderqueer Lani.
I, however, couldn’t have been as concise or compelling as Zory in explaining the book. Consider this recommendation seconded wholeheartedly!
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October 18th, 2009 at 1:56 pm |
Sounds like a good story. Will definitely add to my book list ^_^
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October 18th, 2009 at 4:28 pm |
I’ve read it. Great book!
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October 18th, 2009 at 11:58 pm |
I read this a long long time ago, and it was one of my favorite books then – I think it’s due for a reread.
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October 19th, 2009 at 12:00 am |
Eli, I didn’t write the recommendation, an anonymous reader did! =)
I’m curious to read it, I’ll have to add it to my list as well!
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October 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm |
It has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever. ,
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July 26th, 2010 at 10:16 am |
Favorite. Book. Ever.
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October 31st, 2013 at 6:46 am |
I think that this book is a very good and interesting book because at first it was a mystery of who Lani really was and what happened to him and then near the end you find out he is a boy and that he was killed. I think that it is really stupid that they killed him because they only killed him just because he is different than everyone else like it doesn’t matter if your tall or short, fat or skinny, gay or bi, or is a girl that looks like a guy or a guy that looks like a girl… It doesn’t matter because I think that everyone is beautiful and perfect in their own ways & Thats my opnion to this book.. I Love this book
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