Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin

A novel about Max, a young, popular boy who was born intersex.  Max seemingly has a happy secure life but his secret condition threatens to reveal itself as he reaches puberty and experiences a violent assault. The writing in this novel is good and the story has enough to keep you interested but it's not an especially memorable book, and the storyline gets increasingly unbelievable.  I didn't find this book as powerful as many other reviewers seem to have done, perhaps because the characters of Max's parents seemed to me to be detached and hard to relate to. This is a good book but not excellent and I did not enjoy the subject matter.