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    Audiobook8 hours

    Lizard Radio

    Written by Pat Schmatz

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

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    About this audiobook

    In a futuristic society run by an all-powerful Gov, a bender teen on the cusp of adulthood has choices to make that will change her life-and maybe the world.


    Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent nonconformist, Kivali has always been surrounded by uncertainty. Where did she come from? Is it true what Sheila says, that she was deposited on Earth by the mysterious saurians? What are you? People ask, and Kivali isn't sure. Boy/girl? Human/lizard? Both/neither? Now she's in CropCamp, with all of its schedules and regs, and the first real friends she's ever had. Strange occurrences and complicated relationships raise questions Kivali has never before had to consider. But she has a gift-the power to enter a trancelike state to harness the "knowings" inside her. She has Lizard Radio. Will it be enough to save her? A coming-of-age story rich in friendships and the shattering emotions of first love, this deeply felt novel will resonate with teens just emerging as adults in a sometimes hostile world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781491588468
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    Lizard Radio
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    Pat Schmatz

    Pat Schmatz has lived in the Wisconsin woods of her childhood after years in Michigan, northern California, and Minneapolis.  She's worked everywhere from a green bean canning factory to UC Berkeley campus. . . she's been a fitness consultant, legal secretary, stable hand, librarian, and forklift driver, all while continuing a lifelong quest for story in any form.

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    • 5/5
      This is a really great story of how a young person learns to take control of her own life in the face of personal bigotry, an authoritarian "troubled teens" program, and a literal dystopian government. It's also interesting to see a setting (other than Iran) where binary trans youth are treated relatively well, but LGB and non-binary folks are on the wrong side of the law. There's a lot of setting-specific jargon in this book, but most of it is pretty easy to figure out. My only complaint is that I wish the ending had been a little less ambiguous. I want to see Lizard win, at least a little! But this may be intentional.
    • 4/5
      Fifteen-year-old Kivali is a young girl who has never fit in, having been treated as an outcast most of her life for being a bender (someone who doesn't neatly fit into either the male or female gender binary). She's survived her loneliness and fear of being sent to Blight by escaping into her mind and listening to "lizard radio," an internal broadcast that soothes her and makes her feel less alone. When she's sent to CropCamp in order to learn how to take her place in community, she discovers friendships and love beyond what she's known inside her own head. Schmatz has created an interesting world in Lizard Radio, a world that can seem utopian if your considering it from the point of view of those who fit within the boundaries of its parameters, with it's emphasis on community. However, for those who don't fit in, benders, samers, and other outcasts, who are sent to live in Blight, the world would feel more dystopian. (Interestingly, being transgender is acceptable within this world, provided they fit neatly within either the female or male binary.) People can also vape in this world, a form of vanishing entirely, which could also be seen as good or bad depending on one's perspective. I wouldn't really call this world realistic, but I don't expect that it's intended to be, at least not in the sense of being a world that could really exist. Rather, I think it's more designed as a way to examine the theme of ambiguity. Nevertheless, the characters throughout the book are believable in how they think about and act in the world, and their relationships to each other provide a means of connecting to a story. I really enjoyed reading this.
    • 5/5
      I was completely and utterly floored by this book. It's complex, mysterious, inspiring, heartbreaking - a story about a young person who walks on the boundaries of life, trying to find a way out of the rules. The world they live in is dystopian, but not so much more so than our own world.
    • 4/5
      If you are coming to this book because you loved the author's previous work, Bluefish, you will need to adjust your expectations going in. I don't know that I've read two books by the same author that were so radically different. That said, Lizard Radio is a fascinating look at belonging and identification, a little thinker of a book. Kivali is a "bender," a person who has not conformed to either gender and is therefore sent to a sort of "last-chance" camp to decide her future.(She mostly identifies as female and uses female pronouns so I will as well.) When things are still, she can tune in to her own "Lizard Radio," an internal knowing similar to meditation or prayer. But the gender binary is but one of the absolutes presented to her. At camp, does she follow the rules or try to change them? Is she from this earth or was she dropped by the lizard people? And do our choices matter at all?This could be a sleeper for a Printz nod and I would be delighted.