SOLVED. YA Fantasy-Realism where narrator has mildly crippling OCD. Set in a small town, male POV/narrator. Spoiler ahead. [s]

[Parker]

Read from around 2016-2018, it was relatively recently released (I was good friends with the local librarian who would place holds on new books she thought I would like.)
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The setting is suburbia, with the only fantastical element I remember being that a character is revealed to be a demigod near the end of the novel.
I remember the male narrator having a love triangle with a girl-of-his-dreams and best male gay friend, and the friend ends up being a demigod (which is hinted throughout the book, as he is able to speak/converse with animals silently.)
The narrator has OCD, and there's a scene where he's compulsively washing his hands at work until they bleed and his M best friend pulls him out of it.
In the end he ends up pursuing the girl because the M best friend decides that the narrator "just isn't gay". worst trope ever, but it's why the book's stuck in my brain.
I feel like the cover art was a drawing of the triangle characters, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for all the help!!

[Mai]

This one came up in a search and the reviews mention pretty much everything that you described:
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (published in 2015)

[Parker]

Mai wrote: "This one came up in a search and the reviews mention pretty much everything that you described:
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (published in 2015)
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that's absolutely it, thanks so much!

[Rainbowheart]

The Rest of Us Just Live Here came up last week too! It does have an unusual sounding plot.

[Mai]

Funny! Of all the books out there two people looking for this one so close together!