This book wasn't perfect, but it's definitely worth picking up and recognizing as a successful LGBT+ YA novel. Whatever relationship path you ultimately take I love you H and I'm always proud to call you my child. These are the same children they were before you found out don't throw them away. The manner in which fictional parents can act as a guide if you let them. I worked in the mental health and substance abuse fields for close to a dozen years and the damage I saw from kids rejected by their parents was heartbreaking. However if you have a child dealing with issues of sexual identity this can be one of the ways your child approaches you in their process of coming out. This audiobook is more than capable of standing alone. Ms Farizan is able to take us through it with hardly a stumble much less a fall. Thus she's faced the difficulty of steering her way through the emotional mine field that is high school while living in two cultures while hiding who she really is. Then Saskia enters the picture and the private academy that is Leila's high school and the title of the book now makes sense. Leila manages to avoid crossing that Rubicon without ever leaving her closet. Afraid of life and herself she's never had any experience with a girl indeed her best friend Greg keeps asking her out. The protagonist is an Iranian American girl Leila, who has realized that she's gay and is trying to deal with it. This is an excellent work of coming out/ coming of age YA fiction.
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