Review – A Boy Named Rose

A Boy Named Roseby Gaëlle GenillerGenres: Graphic Novels, Historical Fiction Pages: 212 Rating: Synopsis: Paris. The 1920s. Rose is a boy and, like all the girls he's spent time with since he was born, he wants to dance at "Le Jardin", the cabaret managed by his mother. As Rose blossoms into a young man, he discovers love and tries to find his place in a society that's not ready to welcome true love between two men. Gaëlle Geniller’s A Boy Named Rose is really, really cute. I like the art and colours, and I like how protective and warm the found family at Le Jardin feels. Rose’s character is nuanced, never perfect, but overall positive and sweet, and thoughtful about his identity (which comes out when he’s interviewed). It’s not that he doesn’t get any pushback for being male and wearing dresses or dancing on stage like the women, or even quite that he dismisses it, but he takes his own perspective on it. I also liked that his relationship with Aimé wasn’t explicitly romantic all the…