Fucking brilliant. (Excuse my French)

Wow. Can we just sit for a moment and talk about how amazing this was to listen to? I started it yesterday on audiobook and couldn’t stop listening ever since. I have always been into poetry growing up and have watched several YouTube videos of open mic poetry slams and always felt so deep with the person speaking. This book did that exact same thing. The words were so raw and so close to me. I grew up in an Albanian Catholic home so this was very real for me as I experienced the same thoughts and felt like i couldn’t be myself. Mind you, I’m gay and being Albanian, Catholic and Gay does not go well together. For so long i have looked up poems, quotes, and wrote my own words about how i felt and feel so this was exactly what i needed to get me to going back into writing in my journal.

Thank for you this, Elizabeth Acevedo.