But this friendship falters when Ezra starts dating Austin, and Felix thinks he likes Declan-Ezra’s ex and Felix’s rival for the art scholarship. His uber-rich, down-to-earth best friend, Ezra Patel, helps him navigate contentious relationships at their private art school’s summer intensive and shares copious pot and booze with Felix. A talented visual artist, Felix dreams of an art scholarship to Brown. Felix’s self-image shatters when his pre-transition photos and name appear in the school gallery-followed by relentless transphobic texts. Felix’s dad deadnames him despite supporting his top surgery and hormone therapy, and he hates his mom for leaving when he was 10.
No longer a girl, he thinks “boy” doesn’t always fit either. Seventeen-year-old black trans boy narrator Felix Love wants romance but lacks self-understanding.
Jealousies and deceit resolve into affirmation and artistic self-love.
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