:/
the synopsis and the actual plot really dont match:
•i don’t understand why claire and chris are so scared when, like,,, claire has known her best friend, sophia, since they were both four. sophia came out as trans when she was six. if claire’s parents never were weird about that i feel like its a pretty good assumption that they aren’t homophobic.
•claire being “caught between two loves” or whatever the synopsis says really just doesn’t happen. there is no major conflict with Pen and and Pen just gets forgotten about in the plot pretty much.
•Lena was barely there, and she tells no stories about “growing up gay in the fifties and sixties”. she tells maybe two stories, and they both take place when shes an adult.
just in general a frustrating book where i had a very difficult time really caring about any of the characters.