Agh! I don't know how to classify this book! It's both an alternative historical fiction...and a contemporary? But maybe also fantasy?

There's so much diversity in this book of race and LGBTQ. There are very interesting characters and a very prominent representation of bisexuality. Despite that, the book is fun and heartwarming and takes place in Toronto and Muskoka. It ends very cleanly in a bow but it discussed things few books have. Overall, the theme is acceptance. Acceptance no matter your genetic make up because we can't change who we are. This book did a wonderful job of portraying that without feeling preach-ey or heavy or making me angry.

I Ioved the use of religion here. I grew up a holiday Roman Catholic but began questioning and became an atheist in high school (this was no big deal for me since most of my family did the same and I lived in southern Ontario). One of my biggest issues is the use of institutional religion to hate those different or to use it as an excuse to be a horrible abusive human being. I will fight to my last breath for you to get to believe whatever you want...until you use it to hurt other people. This book uses religion as a positive and it's what I hope institutional religion will change into.