Praise for "The Porcupine of Truth: " Winner of the Stonewall Book Award YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults "Bill Konigsberg's "The Porcupine of Truth" is at once heartwarming and heartbreaking, a funny and thought-provoking road trip with remarkable friends Carson and Aisha, who share tough lessons about mending fractures, forging bonds, and discovering grace. Undeniably human and unforgettably wise, this book is a gift for us all." -- Andrew Smith, author of "Grasshopper Jungle" and "Winger" "Quirky, hilarious, sad, and ultimately tender. The world could use more tenderness and more books like this one. Words like 'brilliant' are so overused when praising novels -- so I won't use that word. I'll just think it." -- Benjamin Alire Saenz, author of "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" * "Konigsberg perfectly depicts the turbulent intensity of a new friendship. Carson is an intensely likable, hilarious, and flawed narrator.
Konigsberg weaves together a masterful tale of uncovering the past, finding wisdom, and accepting others as well as oneself." -- "School Library Journal," starred review * "Konigsberg. crafts fascinating, multidimensional teen and adult characters. A friendship between a straight boy and a lesbian is relatively rare in YA fiction and is, accordingly, exceedingly welcome." -- "Booklist, starred review "The story tackles questions about religion, family, and intimacy with depth and grace. Equal parts funny and profound." -- "Kirkus Reviews" Praise for "Openly Straight: " Winner of the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection Lambda Literary Award Finalist "Konigsberg's lovely novel invites us to walk with Rafe through his season of assumed identity and his costly emergence into honesty. It's beautiful.
It's a story of salvation." -- "The New York Times Book Review" * "Lambda Literary Award-winner Konigsberg has written an exceptionally intelligent, thought-provoking, coming-of-age novel about the labels people apply to us and that we, perversely, apply to ourselves. "Openly Straight" is altogether one of the best gay-themed novels of the last ten years." -- "Booklist," starred review * "Readers and discussion groups looking for new and deeper ways to think about what it means to live honestly in a world that sorts by labels will find this fresh and evocative." -- "The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books," starred review "For a thought-provoking, creative, twenty-first-century take on the coming-out story, look no further." -- "The Horn Book Magazine"".