The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is yellow. At the top of the cover, the title “Daniel, Deconstructed” in large blue caps with a white outline. At the bottom of the cover, text reading “Author of ‘The Wrong Kind of Weird’ James Ramos” in caps and smaller writing. The author’s name “James Ramos” is in smaller than the title, in the same blue and white font. The rest of the phrase is in smaller black caps.

Art stretches across the length of the cover. It is stylised to look like a series of polaroid pictures laid on top of each other. It shows three young people. The person on the left has curly brown hair, a blue cap, long sleeved blue overshirt, blue undershirt and light grey pants. The person in the centre has short black hair, a blue shirt with grey sleeves and dark blue jeans. The person on the right has long, braided brown hair, a two layered, two toned grey sports bra, a revealed abdomen and light blue sweatpants. The person in the centre is also holding a camera. /end]

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Content Warning:

• TBD

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Summary:

A nerdy high schooler learns to embrace his main-character energy in this witty and heart-healing ode to movie tropes, meet-cutes, and LGBTQ+ love.

Photographer and film buff Daniel Sanchez learned a long time ago that the only way to get by in an allistic world is to mask his autism and follow the script. Which means he knows that boisterous, buff, and beautiful soccer superstars like his best friend, Mona Sinclair, shouldn’t be wasting time hanging out with introverts who prefer being behind the camera.

So when Daniel meets a new classmate, Gabe Mendes, who is tall, mysterious, nonbinary, and—somehow—as cool as Mona, Daniel knows exactly how this is going to play out. Mona and Gabe will meet cute, win their nominations for Homecoming Court, and ride off into the sunset together. Daniel just needs to do a little behind-the-scenes directing.

But matchmaking means stepping into the mystifying and illogical world of love, dating, and relationships, where nothing is as it seems and no one knows their lines. And when Daniel finds himself playing a starring role in this romance, he’ll question everything he thought he knew about himself and his place in the world.

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Notes:

As of writing, this book is not yet published. It is due to be published February 6th 2024.

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Archivist Comments:

I don’t know too much about this book because it hasn’t come out yet, but when it does I will update this. From what I have read, however:

• The MC is Cuban-American and autistic
• A couple of side characters are trans
• A couple of side characters are autistic
• A couple of side characters are trans and autistic
• And a couple of side characters are POC

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