When Everything Feels like the Movies (Governor General's Literary Award winner, Children's Literature) - Softcover

Raziel Reid is a former club kid and go-go dancer and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. While in New York, he starred off-Broadway in a production of Check, Please and wrote and starred in the short film End Point. Reid's debut novel When Everything Feels like the Movies won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature (Text) and was the runner-up in CBC's Canada Reads 2015 competition. His screenplay of the novel is being produced by Random Bench.

"I’m struggling to find the right words to put alongside this book for a review, because I’m not entirely sure I can fathom the words required to really do this book justice. It’s incomparable, and it’s completely unlike anything you’ve ever read before. It will shock you, but in the best way possible." ―The Guardian

"This story is a whirlwind of gender-bending drama with plenty of pop culture references." —School Library Journal

"Even within the realm of YA books about gay, cross-dressing teenagers, When Everything Feels Like the Movies stands out. It doesn't mince words, and often those words are the kind not generally found in children's literature." —Montreal Gazette

"I’m struggling to find the right words to put alongside this book for a review, because I’m not entirely sure I can fathom the words required to really do this book justice. It’s incomparable, and it’s completely unlike anything you’ve ever read before. It will shock you, but in the best way possible." The Guardian

"This story is a whirlwind of gender-bending drama with plenty of pop culture references." —School Library Journal

"Even within the realm of YA books about gay, cross-dressing teenagers, When Everything Feels Like the Movies stands out. It doesn't mince words, and often those words are the kind not generally found in children's literature." —Montreal Gazette