I’ve found so many new favourite authors already in the last...

  I’ve found so many new favourite authors already in the last six months, and Robin Talley is definitely up there. This book is just so important for so many reasons.
  Toni and Gretchen are high school sweethearts who both just happen to be girls. Well, kind of.
  The first meet on the day before Gretchen’s first day at a new school. Toni is in a tux. It’s love at first sight.
  Flash forward to the first year of university, and the first time these two have been separated for two years. Gretchen begins to make her first friends in that time that weren’t friends with Toni first, and Toni makes friends with the first transgendered people Toni has met.
  This novel does not follow in the normal patterns of a romance novel, and it would be a disappointing disservice to the story it’s telling if it got shoehorned that way.
  The beautiful novel that’s woven is about two incredibly real characters, one who has completely lost herself in the person she loves, and the other who never really knew where they fit.
  I had tears in my eyes through much of their struggles. Beautiful, happy and awe inspired tears! Robin Talley manages to capture the struggles of both main characters with equal deftness, and juggles a host of side character who equal seeming ease.
  I love everything about this book and it’s flawed, amazing characters. I’m just so happy to have lived in the same world with them for the past few weeks.