A Boy Named Rose

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 19 year old young man, he discovers love and tries to find his place in a society that’s not ready to welcome gender fluidity or true love between two men with open arms.

PRIDE Month is all year long at FairSquare Comics and we decided to celebrate Love like there’s no tomorrow! Created, written and beautifully drawn by Gaelle Geniller, A BOY NAMED ROSE is going to make you fall in love with this story, set in Art Deco Paris and where a young man discovers who he really is in a place filled with entertainment and drama. What is Rose’s place in the world? Is he just a boy? Is he a girl inside? Rose just wants to be accepted for who he really is and live, love and dance as free as he can be. A beautiful LGBTQIA+ tale from a time where loving differently was a challenge, A BOY NAMED ROSE will move you, in all its subtleness and tenderness.

224 pages. Softcover. Squarebound.

“It’a a pleasure to see so many shades of queerness and self-expression now available in comics. Rose is born a boy but dresses as a girl and dances in the cabaret in 1920s Paris in this dreamlike historical romance.” – The Comics Journal