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this inclusive and intersectional book enables us to truly see queer history unlike anything before

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Real Life For Lover Girls Who Want to Escape Into a Story he conveys the tragedy ofA FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award "A blistering coming of age story" O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar,