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The Subtweet

Vivek Shraya (Goodreads Author)

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"Biting and beautiful." -- Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too

Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki's song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins.

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Mar 21, 2020 CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bisexual, south-asian, contemporary, toronto, fiction, trans, queer, reading-in-colour, 5-stars, trans-fem

I've been putting off reviewing this book because I feel like my words are inadequate in face of what an incredible piece of art it is and how thought-provoking and readable it was. Neela and Rukmini are two South Asian Canadian women musicians (one trans, one cis *edit--one is confirmed trans, the other not specified, so I shouldn't assume!) who form a friendship when Rukmini an emerging artist, covers one of the more established artist Neela's songs.

The story investigates brown female friendsh I've been putting off reviewing this book because I feel like my words are inadequate in face of what an incredible piece of art it is and how thought-provoking and readable it was. Neela and Rukmini are two South Asian Canadian women musicians (one trans, one cis *edit--one is confirmed trans, the other not specified, so I shouldn't assume!) who form a friendship when Rukmini an emerging artist, covers one of the more established artist Neela's songs.

The story investigates brown female friendship, professional jealousy, the pleasures and price of making art, social media and call-out culture, white people performing anti-racism for their own benefit, the way systemic racism and sexism pits women of colour against each other, and more. It's also very much a love letter to so many women (mostly of colour) artists and theorists of all stripes, like Shani Mootoo, Lykke Li, June Jordan, Gayatri Spivak, Bjork, Meera Sethi, and so many more. (I found myself googling and enjoying learning about the people I wasn't already familiar with).

This book was so good and so smart! The characterization of Neela and Rukmini was incredible. The concepts were so thoughtfully explored. Once while I was in the middle of this book I was 20 minutes into doing the dishes when I realized I had been washing the pots and pans in silence, just thinking about Neela and Rukmini. This is very unusual for me. I am a stalwart audiobook listener and never normally do chores without one playing, or at least music. But these characters had captured my imagination.

I love how Shraya refused to make Neela and Rukmini likable. When I say Neela and Rukmini aren't nice and likeable, I don't mean that they aren't kind to each other (and others) and that I didn't like and sympathize with them. I absolutely did. But they aren't "nice" and "likeable" in a way that flattens and uncomplicates them. Rukmini and Neela are not made easily digestible and palatable, which is how a sexist white supremacist society wants them. Neither is the villain or the victim.

Guess what this is only the tip of the iceberg of my thoughts: full review on my blog here.

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Apr 26, 2020 Michael rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, recs

A fast-paced satirical novel charting the rise and fall of a friendship between two South Asian singers, whose careers become inextricably linked through social media. The surreal plot takes several sudden turns and swiftly takes on so many topics, from white liberals’ performative allyship to the music industry’s abuse of artists of color, but at its core the story’s a sharp exploration of what it means to create art as a brown person working within a white supremacist society.

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Feb 19, 2021 Thomas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-fiction, own-electronic, read-on-nook, realistic-fiction, lgbtq

A fast-paced novel filled with complexity about friendship, race, and art. The Subtweet follows Neela Devaki and Rukmini, two South Asian musicians who are brought together when Rukmini’s cover of Neela’s song “Every Song” goes viral. The two differ in personality yet form a close friendship despite Neela’s more reclusive tendencies and Rukmini’s extroversion. However, when Rukmini starts to accumulate more success as an artist, Neela posts a subtweet that catapults the direction of their friend A fast-paced novel filled with complexity about friendship, race, and art. The Subtweet follows Neela Devaki and Rukmini, two South Asian musicians who are brought together when Rukmini’s cover of Neela’s song “Every Song” goes viral. The two differ in personality yet form a close friendship despite Neela’s more reclusive tendencies and Rukmini’s extroversion. However, when Rukmini starts to accumulate more success as an artist, Neela posts a subtweet that catapults the direction of their friendship into difficult and public terrain.

I loved how Vivek Shraya dissects popular notions of social justice and racial progress in The Subtweet. Without taking us out of the story itself, she examines nuanced questions like: is it possible for an artist of color to make it “big” in the industry without pandering or selling out to white people? Can an artist of color achieve success without performative allyship from white people, and is popularity within a white-dominant society even worth it? How can artists of color support one another in a system designated to pit them against each other? Watching Neela and Rukmini live these questions in The Subtweet feels like opening one’s eyes to the racism and white supremacy of the music industry, an industry that often promotes an image of progressivism and liberalism despite its problems related to inequity and injustice.

I also liked the novel’s focus on friendship and the power of friendship between brown women. There is pretty much no romance in this book and almost no men, which feels refreshing in an amatonormative and heteronormative society. If anything, I wanted even more depth in Neela and Rukmini’s friendship prior to the subtweet. While I believed in their bond, I feel like fleshing it out more would have enhanced the emotional resonance of the story in the wake of the events following Neela’s subtweet. Still, I would recommend this novel to those interested in the music industry, performative allyship and questions related to race in the creative arts, and friendship between women of color. ...more

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Jan 14, 2020 Jesse bowtiesandbooks rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Subtweet is an energetic novel surrounding two brown musicians (Neela and Rukmini), illustrating how they come together, their eventual close friendship, and ultimate falling out over a twitter feud.
The strength of this novel lies in its connectedness. Shraya expertly builds up "the music scene", the culture and lifestyle of struggling musicians, and brings every piece of music to life in her pages. In fact, you can listen to music from The Subtweet once the book releases! A merciless examinati Subtweet is an energetic novel surrounding two brown musicians (Neela and Rukmini), illustrating how they come together, their eventual close friendship, and ultimate falling out over a twitter feud.
The strength of this novel lies in its connectedness. Shraya expertly builds up "the music scene", the culture and lifestyle of struggling musicians, and brings every piece of music to life in her pages. In fact, you can listen to music from The Subtweet once the book releases! A merciless examination of friendship, call out culture, and how "validation culture" (needing affirmation from strangers online to feel good about oneself) impacts women of color; I was very much looking forward to the exploration of each of these topics. Unfortunately, the Subtweet was not for me.

The dialogue-centric storytelling felt immoderate; there simply wasn't enough descriptions of setting and little to no transition between scenes. The time jumps were jarring and excessive. However, there were occasional lines of comedic or emotional gold such as "there was nothing more intimidating than watching a grown man throw a temper tantrum as an intimidation tactic" - relatable. Subtweet seeks to address a myriad of society's issues without successfully (in my opinion) digging into and truly interrogating most of its topics, but it does show how easily miscommunications happen online and how seeking "likes and RTs" to validate yourself and your artistry is a 1 way ticket to disappointment. Most glaringly, I felt the characters had little to no backstory.

They lacked the characterization I needed in a story so centered on the relationship between two people; also the miscommunication trope was RAMPANT in this book. Since the story was so fast paced and overly focused on plot, the codependent relationship Neela and Rukmini had with one another felt rushed, unrealistic, and surface level. As a result, I was not interested in what happened between them.

Two things I found problematic: I did not enjoy how this book handled gender nonconformity. There were 2 remarks in particular that I did not appreciate. EX:
1. One of the main characters is surveying a crowd, notices a "white androgynous" person, and immediately begins using they pronouns for this person. At no point does she use they pronouns for any of the brown people she encounters in the book. It reinforces the idea that nonbinary people are white and "gender ambiguous" looking. as a nonbinary afromexican individual, this irritated me. The same character also makes fun of people who overly uses the word "folks" instead of addressing the group with gendered terms. Again, folks is used to be inclusive of gender non conforming people so seeing this made fun of really irritated me. Also one of the MC's casually mentions that she is trans but the book never mentions it again so I wouldn't exactly applaud it for trans rep.

2. Neela narrates, "the word 'jazz' should come with a trigger warning" as a way of venting her frustration that jazz is misunderstood. This was ...wildly unnecessary. The author could have used literally any other word instead of making light of trigger warnings. It simply acceptable. Mind you, this is an arc so maybe this will be corrected by the proof.

These things did not affect my rating, however as a gender nonconforming reader with an illness that has triggers, it truly stung to read them.

Themes: women of color, woc, call out culture, race, musicians, underground music, friendship, NYC, social media, feminism, social justice, activism
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Dec 23, 2019 Jason rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: canadian, lgbtqia

This novel surpassed my already high expectations. I loved it, I didn't want it to end, I miss it now. ...more

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Feb 15, 2021 Alice Lippart rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2021, contemporary-fiction

Quite an interesting story about female friendship. Really liked the social media aspect.

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Jan 18, 2020 Ameema Saeed rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-by-women-of-colour, most-anticipated, books-i-own, own-voices, arcs, diverse-books, adult-fiction

Predictably, I fell in love with this book in just a few pages. Sharp, thoughtful, complex, and truly wonderful - this book is a work of art.

Vivek captures the complexities of (brown) women’s friendship, the sharp edges of professional jealousy, the mercurial nature of the internet, and the essence of what it means to be a woman of colour who is also an artist.

She has written some incredible, fierce, multi-dimensional, flawed, and wonderful characters - in Neela and Rukmini, as well as in the s Predictably, I fell in love with this book in just a few pages. Sharp, thoughtful, complex, and truly wonderful - this book is a work of art.

Vivek captures the complexities of (brown) women’s friendship, the sharp edges of professional jealousy, the mercurial nature of the internet, and the essence of what it means to be a woman of colour who is also an artist.

She has written some incredible, fierce, multi-dimensional, flawed, and wonderful characters - in Neela and Rukmini, as well as in the secondary and supporting roles - and I found myself tearing through this book, wanting to know more about them.

This book is a complicated, messy love letter to Brown women, to music, to artistry, to creativity, to Toronto, to friendship. I zipped through it in a day, but I can already tell that I’m going to be thinking about it for a long time.

When I say that I felt “seen” by this book, I worry that it feels reductive and basic. But what I mean is - this book put my thoughts, feelings, and experiences into words and characters and events with such lucidity that it took my breath away. Shraya captures the complex dynamics of friendships, especially women’s friendship, and especially the friendships between women of colour with such remarkable clarity and thought. The tenderness, the connection, the solidarity, the support, the messiness, the competition - not just professional and personal jealousy born from wanting - but also the competition handed down and enforced by White and patriarchal systems that make us feel like maybe there can only be one of us.

UGH The Subtweet was so smart and so good.

This is not the book I thought it was going to be - it surprised me at every turn, and I already can’t wait to read it again.

Vivek has always been unapologetic in her writing - and each book I’ve read has impressed me and blown me away... but there’s something about The Subtweet that stuck out to me.

It’s bold, but in a quiet and sincere way. It’s smart and sharp and witty, yet kind and loving and beautiful. It’s a testament to friendships - how we make them, how we break them. It’s messy and sometimes ugly with bitterness, and frustration, and jealousy, and vitriol, but it’s also tender and wholesome, and full of love and loss and music.

This might be my favourite Vivek Shraya book yet.

I’m a book reviewer and Indigo employee, and am beyond grateful to the publisher for the advanced reading copy, and the chance to share my honest feedback. ...more

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Jan 14, 2020 Shealea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: recommended, arc-review

* I received a digital ARC of this book (via NetGalley) from its publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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May 31, 2020 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: music, location-canada, read2020, ebooks

I loved this read that starts with one musician covering the song of another, and how that leads to a friendship until one becomes much more famous than the other. It's about friendship and cultural appropriation. The author does a fantastic job showing how relationships are complicated with texts and social media, and how music can unite and divide. Shraya posted the song as she envisioned it as well as the cover version; you can also listen to the audiobook of this book via her account in Spot ...more

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Sep 08, 2020 Natasha Niezgoda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbt, own-voice, fiction

Wow. I learned so much about the music industry!

Review to come!

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May 13, 2020 Erik rated it it was ok

Shelves: lgbt, poc-authored

Vivek Shraya's "The Subtweet," a fictional tale of the woes of communication in an age of social media, is at times too true and at other times not true enough.

Rukmini bursts onto the music scene when she produces a Youtube pop cover of a song by Neela Devaki. An act that initiates a friendship quickly unfolds into a cautionary tale about indirect communication in a world controlled by white supremacy. Following the lives of four brown women, each part of this book gives life to elements of the ...more

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Jan 20, 2021 Bill Khaemba rated it liked it · review of another edition

An interesting packaged narrative showcasing brown women tackling the creative space, being inspired by each other, building each other, and a deeper look into how they navigate the complex world of social media, ultimately opening up a whole lot of questions in regards to representation and identity. It felt like a long tweeter thread with so many angles, voices, misunderstandings that didn't hold that much urgency to me. Did enjoy the friendship aspect, the passion each character presented, an ...more

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Nov 18, 2020 Tara rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2020, reviewed-at-lambda

The writing itself is deft and incisive, propelling the reader through every event and conversation at lightning speed. At the same time, The Subtweet’s story is incredibly layered, asking a number of questions without necessarily coming to any answers. Who are creators of colour creating their art for? Should they be trying to achieve a certain level of commercial success? If they want to live off their art, how much of that depends on creating for (or perhaps pandering to) white audiences? Is ...more

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Nov 12, 2020 Jen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-i-might-actually-like, 2020-releases

did i read this 2 + 1/2 hours before one of my exams? yes
should i not have considering it was an exam on a paper i am not doing well in? yes
do i regret spending all that time reading this book instead of, idk, studying? fuck NO

i really enjoyed this, and i'm excited to pick up Shraya's other book I'm Afraid of Men, which i've heard is a m a z i n g. but for this read, i really loved all the topics and commentary that was made: on making music, specifically when the musician is BIPOC, social medi ...more

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Nov 11, 2019 Amber rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-or-new-adult

I am kind of expecting this to create very polarized reviews... full review hopefully to come closer to release date.

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Aug 08, 2020 Giulia rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: the-dirty, the-lgbtq

"If you are free, you are not predictable…"

TW: racism, anxiety

Unpopular Opinion Time 🐸☕️

Actual rating: 2.5 ⭐️

Please do not attack me. This book was simply not for me.
My rating should definitely not stop you if you are interested in reading this novel.
The real, shameful problem was that I simply did not care.

The cover is breathtaking, but even if the synopsis sounds delightful I was not particularly a fan of this book.

But first thing first, allow me to try and keep this Rather Random Review™️ a ...more

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Oct 12, 2020 Molly Ferguson rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, world-lit

I loved that this book was about friendship and fame in the internet age--I'm so interested in how social media is shaping relationships and Shraya does an excellent job of chronicling that. I found the book very funny at first, and then the humor kind of dissipated, and the narration was a little inconsistent. The commentary about making art in a white supremacist culture machine was fascinating! ...more

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Apr 28, 2020 Enne rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: z-2020-reads, audiobooks, boring, dissapointed, pov-female, genre-contemporary, pov-1st, pov-multiple, rep-bipoc-main, 2-and-a-half-star

2.5 stars

This book isn't bad by any means, so please don't let my rating as a sign that you shouldn't read this because I feel like that rating is definitely a problem with me and not at all a problem with the book. I really wanted to enjoy this and I'm so disappointed that I didn't.

My main issue with this book is that I just did not care about any of it. Neela annoyed me for most of the first half of the book and while she somewhat grew on me in the second half of the story, I still couldn't f ...more

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May 06, 2020 Emma rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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PLEASE READ THIS BOOK, you won't regret it.

Oh my, what a pleasant surprise this was.

This is a story about friendships, coming together and falling apart. About jealousy, fame and creativity, self-love and pride.

The issues this book tackled are so well approached: what is it like, to be a Brown woman in the North American music industry? Why are women of color always put in competition, as if they couldn't coexist, together, at the front of the main scene? How can you love someone, wishing them ...more

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Apr 25, 2020 Janani rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: north-american-authors, poc-author-artist-mc, women-nb-gf-authors-protags, social-justice, ownvoices, lgbtqia-author-artist-mc, asian-authors, contemporary-fiction, adult-fiction, library

This book does some interesting things. I enjoyed the stripped-down, bare-bones format that focused mainly on forwarding the plot. Shraya uses it to conduct a nuanced examination of fame, culture, activism, relationships, and social media's impact on all of the above. It took on some hard questions and offered perspective on fallible characters. This was a thought-provoking reading experience in multiple ways.

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May 07, 2020 Hilary Land rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book was a love letter to Toronto and one that was much appreciated while I quarantine in my house around the corner from grapefruit moon.

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Nov 03, 2020 Lata rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This story about the 1) start and end of a friendship between two South Asian women living in Toronto. It’s also 2) an examination of the ways brown women are ignored, diminished, forgotten, used by not only the music industry but generally by the dominant, white culture. And how ally-ship can be performative, thoughtless and belittling, rather than what it needs to be.
The main characters weren’t precisely likeable, and, were consequently much more believable in their need for validation, creati ...more

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Feb 06, 2021 Samiha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I enjoyed Subtweet, reading about the friendship between two south asian female artists was wonderful. This was the first Vivek Shraya book I've read, and will be picking up more. The balance and contrast between reserved and outwardly brown women was real and relatable. It's a very fast paced novel and kept me engaged throughout. The ending felt a bit abrupt but overall still a great read. ...more

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Nov 07, 2020 Bogi Takács added it · review of another edition

Review a bit later IY"H, because I still need to listen to the OST (yes, there is an OST!!).
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Aug 09, 2020 jess rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

ok wow... what an incredible ride this was. parts of this book were so uncomfortable to read because it was so much like having a real conversation/conflict with my friends in the era of being terminally online, and navigating visibility/publicity that can't be separated from the white gaze. upon starting this, i first assumed that it was "basically" the story of a dissolving friendship between two south asian women artists, and it frustrated me to watch the tension between them building from mu ok wow... what an incredible ride this was. parts of this book were so uncomfortable to read because it was so much like having a real conversation/conflict with my friends in the era of being terminally online, and navigating visibility/publicity that can't be separated from the white gaze. upon starting this, i first assumed that it was "basically" the story of a dissolving friendship between two south asian women artists, and it frustrated me to watch the tension between them building from mutual misunderstandings and an inability to communicate. a lot of this frustration was from seeing myself so clearly in both rukmini and neela, and thinking about what i would have done differently in either of those situations to simply "do better," but the second half of the book really exploded that projection and raised the much bigger questions: it's never feasible to give up on social capital or publicity altogether, so how do you preserve the integrity of your politics/experience as a woman of color without selling out? what does "accountability" even mean in a world where it's inevitably sensationalized as drama or "tea"? what's our responsibility to our friends and ex-friends and not-yet-friends when we can't just talk things out privately? and when it's too late for apologies or private conversations, what opportunities are there to pay tribute to all the people we owe?

i loved how this book ended, and loved how it shifted to a perspective outside of the neela/rukmini dyad to leave us with a moment of ambiguity, an opening for something else. i'm sure some people will read this and marvel at just how terminally online some of us are (and in that case, well, this is indeed the world i live in...) and i'm kind of tickled thinking about how hopefully people will read this in 50 years as a case study of a very specific technological/social moment. i don't think any other book i've read has captured in such detail the tangle of feelings you can experience from seeing a subtweet or the way that "earnestness" and "authenticity" have become internet brands, and the inevitable compromises you make when you choose to make yourself legible. ...more

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Jun 23, 2020 Sabrina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2020, books-by-women, audio-book, lgbtqia

I loved this novel because it is about the messiness of friendship. It felt extremely refreshing to read a relationship-focused novel that was about friends rather than a romantic relationship. It also contained very relatable social media anxieties, such as the implications of a subtweet. I wish we had seen more of the growth and evolution of Neela and Rukmini's friendship (it feels like we go from meet-cute to besties pretty quickly), but I thought it was a very successful and thought-provokin ...more

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Sep 26, 2020 issabella rated it really liked it · review of another edition

this is my first vivek shraya book and although i was a little intimidated by this book (mostly in terms of if i would get it or not lol) i actually enjoyed it a lot. i found myself wanting to find a happy ending between neela and rukmini but seeing as how the book end leaving it open i was more than satisfied. as someone who enjoys primarily female musicians and understanding how the media and the industry itself pits women against each other constantly seeing this journey was fascinating. i al ...more

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Jul 01, 2020 Meg added it · review of another edition

Shelves: queer, music, toronto, canadian, race

Amazing work. My words can only summarize *hands gestures* *collapse*

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Nov 15, 2020 ✨ Livia ✨ rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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--- DNF @ 126 pages ---

My Rating: 2 stars

Neela is tired of hearing songs about falling in love. So when she finds out that rising star Rukmini covers her song, they fall into friendship instead. When Rukmini gets more recognition for a cover of a song that's Neela's and gets an offer to tour, headlining said song, jealousy and doubt come in. With a single tweet, their friendship is turned to dust and they find themselves in the middle of an internet firestorm.

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- The reason why ...more

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Feb 11, 2021 Amanda Belcher rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021, lgbtqia, audiobooks

This was a really interesting meditation on modern friendship and how social media shapes the connections we make and preserve — the way social media only shows a fraction of the truth, the jealousy it can cause, the conflicts that can arise from poor communication, etc.

I really liked both main characters here, though I think they could have been a little more fleshed out. I was also very intrigued by the music scene, which felt authentic. The artistry within Rukmini and Neela’s storylines was ...more

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Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. She is the author of The Subtweet, Death Threat, even this page is white, The Boy & The Bindi, She of the Mountains, and God Loves Hair; and her best-selling I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel”. She is one half of the music duo Too Attac ...more

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