personally, I think I will blame Ocean Vuong for literally anything that happens to me for at least the next six months after reading this book.
5 stars.

co-read with Math my beloved after finding out we both wanted to read it and had the time to do so together and although the initial plan was to read and then discuss what we had read together time and time again there were no words to describe what was read between us.

I personally went in utterly blind after seeing an excerpt on some social media website timeline, saving the best parts to be savoured and the worst parts to be experienced wholly, which I didn't think I could do for a text and genre as unfamiliar as this.
The unabashed insight into Little Dog's life, seeing the rose-coloured lenses he was wearing and eventually losing with time really made this book the one for me- despite the innate differences we may have.
It also showed that every queer person ever has one to two shared experiences and it just made me all the more tender towards the end of the book.

If you're gonna get anything out of this review, it should be to read it blind.

Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go cry.