After skateboarding fails to keep the memories at bay, she is introduced to roller derby and is immediately enthralled by the contact sport. Tanya Boteju’s second contemporary LGBTQIA+ YA novel Bruised has all kinds of emotion erupting from me, but mostly joy emerges that teenagers and young adults will be able to read this story and connect with the anger, grief, self-discovery and acceptance within the pages of this book.īruised follows Daya Wijesinghe, a second-generation Canadian Sri Lankan teenager who copes-or perhaps avoids coping-with the grief and guilt of her parents’ death by substituting her emotional pain with the physical-by bruising.
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