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Sarah Henstra
An exhilarating and emotional LGBTQ story about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters written to one another. For fans of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and I’ll Give You the Sun. Thrown together by a zealous English teacher's classroom-mailbox assignment, notorious scrapper, Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky, and Jonathan Hopkirk, a flamboyant Walt Whitman wannabe, have to write an old-fashioned letter to each other every week. Kurl is a senior, an ex high school football player, held back a year, while Jo is a nerdy, out tenth grader with a penchant for vintage clothes and a deep love for poetry. They are an unlikely pair, but with each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that grows into love. But with homophobia, bullying and familial abuse, Jonathan and Kurl must struggle to overcome their conflicts and hold onto their relationship, and each other.
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Author
Sarah Henstra
Pages
304
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2019-05-14
ISBN
0735264228 9780735264229
Ratings
Google: 5
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"super underrated mlm book!! it so beautifully written and the way the author portrays the characters through their different writing styles is amazing!"
hailey
"i was not prepared for the most insane scenes. i thought this was a cute little love story. but besides that it’s amazing "
book lvr
"this book was so cute. i loveddd the strangers to lovers dynamic and it was just beautifully written. i liked how we don’t see what’s really happening and just how they say it to each other. it makes you part of their important moments together without the thought of another person. "
Sophia
"this book is literally a love hate relationship story and one of the boys slept with the other ones sister like and there's so much hate between the two main characters it's just really confusing "
jordan Bates
"Couldn’t get more than 20 pages into this book. The writing is quite bland and unrealistic, and the age gap is quite strange and frankly a good reason to not read. This is a queer fiction book written by a straight woman, for straight women."
Madeline Angell
"This book felt like the long love letters that I’d always dreamed of receiving as a love-stricken teenager."
Jourdan Mendoza
"This has easily become one of my all-time favorite books! For me, it’s a virtually flawless book! ❤️"
D G
Dakota Gibson
"i honestly love the style of this book, it has become one of my favorites :))"
tatum
"This book was so good! I really loved Jonathan and 'Kurl's characters, the plot took a small twist, and the audiobook is really good too! "
Evie Wills
"Very insightful! I loved that it felt like we were only getting a sneak peak into their love story. We saw the letters, but it was still all theirs. And theirs alone. We didn't see any more than they let us. "
Autumn H
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