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You're the Most Precious Thing in the World
You’re the Most Precious Thing in the World follows the story of Diana, a girl on the brink of adulthood who falls mercy to the thralls of lust and passion. Told in four uniquely gripping sections, it is a story about the power of love, forgiveness, and the weaknesses of the human heart.
Based in the city of Toronto, at seventeen, Diana finally meets the man she thought that she had longed for, Darius, the perfect boyfriend whom she should be happy with, yet finds herself bored of the simplicity and eventual stillness of the relationship. She enters a love triangle when she encounters Khalil, a boy who breathes passion into her life and awakens new worlds within herself, but she in unable to cope with his ungraspable need to posses and control her. In the privacy of her secret lover’s bedroom, Holden, an enigma who has already promised himself to another, they find themselves in a lyrical and candid dance of seduction and pain, underwritten by their desires to escape the traumatic experiences of their lives. And Augusto, an extraordinary musician who visits the city one summer whom she believes to be the love of her life, only to discover that true love is parallel to her own foolhardiness.
Ahead of every step Diana takes, her denials, attachments, and restlessness follows her through her relationships. These stories lay bare the infinite reminder that raw desire and the very nature of love will always triumph over erudition. What starts out as a journey of excitement and recklessness, transforms into one about self discovery and the most important testament of all, that the dream of love never truly dies.
Based in the city of Toronto, at seventeen, Diana finally meets the man she thought that she had longed for, Darius, the perfect boyfriend whom she should be happy with, yet finds herself bored of the simplicity and eventual stillness of the relationship. She enters a love triangle when she encounters Khalil, a boy who breathes passion into her life and awakens new worlds within herself, but she in unable to cope with his ungraspable need to posses and control her. In the privacy of her secret lover’s bedroom, Holden, an enigma who has already promised himself to another, they find themselves in a lyrical and candid dance of seduction and pain, underwritten by their desires to escape the traumatic experiences of their lives. And Augusto, an extraordinary musician who visits the city one summer whom she believes to be the love of her life, only to discover that true love is parallel to her own foolhardiness.
Ahead of every step Diana takes, her denials, attachments, and restlessness follows her through her relationships. These stories lay bare the infinite reminder that raw desire and the very nature of love will always triumph over erudition. What starts out as a journey of excitement and recklessness, transforms into one about self discovery and the most important testament of all, that the dream of love never truly dies.
657 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2022
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