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This novel somehow reminds me of Donna Tartt's Goldfinch: a wandering picaresque tale centered around a famous painting and two people inextricably attached to it. The heroes are totally queer - misfits, castoffs, orphans, rejects. The tone is ferociously opposed to adults and adulting, while amazing at recreating the overwhelming passions of early adolescence: love and friendship, shame and guilt, and fear and loss.