Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Albertalli Becky

He also lets Simon believe that he took screenshots of the emails. Martin tells Simon his brother is gay, and it’s not a big deal to him if Simon is. They have been discussing their feelings about being gay, as well as other topics, without knowing one another’s identity. Simon has been emailing Blue, another student at Creekwood, through an anonymous account. Simon’s classmate Martin mentions during rehearsal for the school musical that he read Simon’s email on the school computer. The narrative is told from Simon’s first-person point-of-view, as well as through epistolary chapters made up of emails between Simon and his anonymous correspondent, Blue. The Homo Sapiens Agenda relates the coming out and first love of Simon, a student at Creekwood High School in mid-2010s suburban Atlanta. This guide follows the 2016 First Paperback Edition. The novel contains profanity and references to sex. In 2018, it was adapted into a film, Love, Simon, by 20th Century Fox and a spin-off TV series, Love, Victor, is on Hulu. Morris Award from the American Library Association. The Homo Sapiens Agenda won the 2016 William C. The series is also set in the same shared universe (the Simonverse) as Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give (2017) and Nic White’s Dear Martin (2017). the Homo Sapiens Agenda is the first book in the Creekwood series, which includes Albertalli’s books The Upside of Unrequited (2017), Leah on the Offbeat (2018), and Love, Creekwood (2020).

Albertalli, a psychologist who worked with LGBTQ children and teens, explores themes related to growing up and questions whose experiences are considered to be the standard. Simon is blackmailed about his anonymous email relationship with another boy as a fellow classmate threatens to out him as gay if he doesn’t help them get a date with his friend.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) tells the story of protagonist Simon Spier. American author Becky Albertalli’s YA romance and coming-of-age novel, Simon Vs.

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Albertalli Becky