a gorgeous gorgeous book on the exploration of feelings and family and everything in between. this was so humanising, so raw and so brutally kind. these are a messy bunch of teenagers, learning to be themselves and to love all the smaller parts of each other and i loved it. from the literature references, to the flowers to the characters themselves. very very very sweet <33 it also highlighted the importance of owning who you are: with labels or without. the casual talk of asexual oft and aromanticism was so so important to me and i did shed a few tears. a beautiful debut <3