Young adult literature (YAL) provides readers with a multivoiced palette that embraces cultures, genders, ages, sexualities, and experiences. Within this array are stories that feature characterswho deny elements of their identities or experiences that they find challenging or difficult. Multivoiced literature's treatment of these attempts takes on resonance given the historical and social realities of marginalized cultures and communities often featured in such titles. This article draws on the assumptions that identity is not only negotiable and socially constructed but also personally constructed and that literature can allow readers to disrupt and interrogate the complex ways in which identity may be socially, politically, and culturally situated. Explorations of multivoiced YAL can reveal the ways that voices are silenced within the world. While characters may seemingly choose to deny a part of their identities, there is a certain muddiness about whether the choice is of their own free will or if the choice has essentially been made for them given societal norms, expectations, and biases.