You probably think that they are going to fall in love or something. Will they have the courage to show everyone who they really are? Or will they be met with radio silence? In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year. So this book has been out for a little over two years now. What was I doing in all that time that was more important than this book? Which means I’ve spend two years – TWO YEARS – just going around, living my life, while this books exists in the world and I wasn’t reading it. This felt like exactly the book that I needed in my life. It was the book I needed when I was in high school, and it’s exactly the book I need now in college. I think I went through every emotion that a human being can in the span of 400 pages, and if there was a rating higher than five stars, I would give it without hesitation. So this review is going to get a little gushy and emotional. “That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no-homo,’ but I appreciate the sentiment.”įrances Janvier , the main character and narrator, is a seventeen year old bisexual, biracial, British-Ethiopian study machine who has spent much of her life aiming for the goal of going to Cambridge. At school, she’s head girl and always the top of her class, but at home she wears weirdly patterned leggings and draws fanart for her favorite podcast, Universe City. As such, she feels like she has two different selves that nobody really knows. really didn’t expect to relate so hard to Frances. She’s so focused on studying and doing well in school that she often doesn’t let herself enjoy anything else, and she places much of her self-worth on her grades and test scores.

At one point she says something about how she doesn’t think she’s good at anything except school and.

That was me in high school, and to an extent it’s me now in college.

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