A beautifully written book (although you will either love or hate the atmospheric and wandering language), and I enjoyed the depiction of intensity and conflict in Elio's feelings towards Oliver (although he is not always a realistic teenage character, in this I really felt the raw power of adolescent feelings and all the hormones that come with them). Bonus points for the character of the father and the touching father/son relationship, although it's a very small part of the book. Ultimately tragic in a way that is reflective of Elio's intense and introspective personality, wherein he's unable to process the relationship in a healthy way and clings to it for decades. Loses a star for the unnecessarily graphic depictions - not of the actual sex, which is not actually graphic but would have been fine if it was - but of the infamous peach scene and the far-worse-in-my-opinion bathroom scene late in the novel (I still feel a little ill). Overall, though, a rather beautiful and dreamy book that I enjoyed, even if I'll never forget parts of it for all the wrong reasons.