Ramona Blue

Ramona Blue

Book Title:
Ramona Blue
Author:
Julie Murphy
Pages:
408

Ramona is a six foot tall lesbian with blue hair in her small town of Eulogy, Mississippi. She lives with her dad and big sister Hattie in a FEMA trailer they moved into after Hurricane Katrina and never left. It is the beginning of senior year and Ramona has plans to get out of Eulogy. Then Hattie gets pregnant and Ramona believes she has to stay and take care of her sister and future niece. Then childhood best friend Freddie moves back to town with his grandma and things go sideways for Ramona. Suddenly, she is having feelings for a boy! Ramona has just broken up with her summer fling Grace who is still in the closet and Freddie has just broken up with his girlfriend. But feelings are feelings and they decide to explore them. 

I think this is the first book I have read that really explores fluid sexuality in such a realistic way. I will admit that at first I was like "are you going to say a boy can cure lesbians?" but that isn't what Julie Murphy is saying at all. She, through Ramona, is saying that attraction is attraction and you can be attracted sexually to any gender at any time. Ramona doesn't fit into a cute little box in any way including her sexual identity. I think it is a wonderful exploration of how attraction works. I also loved Ramona's supportive friends and family. This was a fun book to listen to.