People have been telling me to read this book for years. Literal years. Probably since it released in 2012, but I’ve put it off and put it off. I don’t know why I put it off, but I regret it. This book is beautiful and honest and lovely. It didn’t hurt that it was read by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He could probably read the classifieds and I’d listen to it. That’s not the main reason I enjoyed this book.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a young adult novel that is mostly light, but gets heavy really quickly regarding racial and sexuality identity. This book took me a few chapters to get into, because at the beginning, Ari is a little bit obnoxious. Everything “sucks.” Realistically, that’s how most 15-year-olds talk, and it got a whole lot better once he met Dante.

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