Among Others

Among Others is a lovely book, even wonderful. It is not very exciting or thrilling, but it did keep me reading.
I cannot assign it to a genre. It seems to be a coming of age story. The protagonist is a teenage girl who was raised by a mad mother and has suffered a tragedy. She is trying to get on with her life through pain and sorrow. That would make it sort of a YA book. But, Among Others won both the Nebula award and the Hugo award as best book of the year, which would make it SF&F.
Why? Well you see, the main character, Morwenna, sees and communicates with fairies. She also tries to do some magic. Whether she succeeds or not ... well you will have to read to story for that.
I myself would not call it SF&F, but just a lovely and peculiar story and leave it at that.
Oh, and by the way, Morwenna loves books and talks about them constantly. They become sort of a character in the story.