Age range 14+ A gloriously upbeat LGBTQI+ novel of love, hope and friendship showing that although its not always rainbows and fireflies, lifes too short to be anyone but yourself It started with a kissas love stories often do. Jesse Andrews had the arms of a Greek god and he was on the track team.
The night of our kiss fell on a Friday. Then, only a few days later, Fins world is turned upside down and not in a good head-over-heels-in-love way when Jesse cruelly outs him. An event which ultimately leads to his family leaving town. But a fresh start isnt going to change the truth of who Fin is. And its not going to stop his sexuality causing everyone all sorts of problems. Everyone, that is, apart from his new best friend Poppy, her girlfriend-in-waiting June, and his latest crush RyeSo, while Fin and Rye are enjoying some seriously intimate moonlit moments together, Fins parents decide to pack him off to the local ReSouled therapy camp. Its a nightmare and theres no easy way out. Can Fins squad hatch a plan outrageous enough to spring him before the conversion acolytes force him onto the straight and narrow? 'The LGBT experience isnt always as fluffy, carefree and smooth as we would want it to be. Harrys story of fighting his demons is one we need to hear.
