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It is genuinely hard to believe that Mary H.K. Choi wrote this after Emergency Contact, a book I just so deeply didn't enjoy. This book is so deeply impactful to me in a way that it is utterly incomparable to a book I was so deeply disinterested in. I found all the main characters and a few of the side characters were so deeply relatable because they're so full of contradictions, seeming preachy at times but also doing things that would seem so ideologically opposed to some of the things they say. Not only have I have known people my age in New York like that, I have known parents like that of Jayne's, making this feel so much more real to me. This book felt very solid to me, not just in characterization but the usage of flashbacks didn't feel as forced as it would in many other books. I felt as though the little bits you get of June and Jayne's history in Texas is so interesting. This book accompanied me when I had no reception on trains and I needed something to pass the time with on the long subway rides into the city. The fact that it is set in NYC mostly made me feel so involved probably, but also that the novel didn't follow children in school but rather adults. As an adult myself, I get a little grossed out reading about the romantic lives of teenagers so the adult characters were definitely welcomed by me. It is fantastic and it's not 4 stars but rather 4.6 in my heart (7/11/2024). — Mars ᓚᘏᗢ |
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