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Weeping at the same time as the characters are is the kind of 4D reading experience you get in the last 30% of this book. "Character was wracked with sobs" sister my cheeks are tear stained and my eyes red and puffy

Screaming crying and throwing up

God I love the lyrical prose in this book

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

I think something the book does pretty well is capture how alien you can feel as a gay boy, how much of your experiences are kept to yourself because they're unshared by your peers or you have to hide them to protect yourself, to be observing masculinity and boyhood from the outside while also being trapped inside a version of it no one else can see

This ides of March I'm celebrating by reading depressing queer fiction. Et tu, Brute?

Food is magic

It's giving brooding detective novel

"find me, I am not free"

Fucking devastating

"they were all that I could carry" takes me out every time

The book is incredible so far I keep reading and thinking wow I can't believe this exists. I'm also absolutely the target audience for this LOL