I'm heads over heels in love with this book

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I am heads over heels in love with Ophelia After All. It's a story that navigates friendships which seem rock solid, until they aren't. About all the ways we deny, lie, make mistakes, and utter fragile things which crumble with any weight. While I was prepared to love Ophelia's queer questioning journey the most, I ended up just unequivocally falling in love with Ophelia. She's struggling to undo the heteronormativity. Making mistakes in the messy ways we do when the version of ourselves we are disappears.

Marie's debut is about love and loss. It's about how coming out can feel like you're losing a piece of yourself, while also finding another. How there are cracks in our realities and the journey to find the courage to pull it apart at the seams. Ophelia not only confronts her questioning, but also the way things fall apart because of fault lines and tensions, secrets and denials. There are relationships which will weather the storm. Which dig their roots in and preserve, and then there are weeds.