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Ode to My First Car

byRobin Gow

Who is this book for? Readers interested in contemporary LGBTQ+ romance and coming-of-age stories.

Topics LoveIdentityComing of Age
MoodLight-hearted, Hopeful
Female protagonist
RomanceCentral to the Plot
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
By the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions, this contemporary sapphic romance novel-in-verse follows a bisexual teen girl who falls in and out of love over the course of one fateful summer, perfect for fans of Juliet Takes a Breath and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me. It's a few months before senior year and Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally starting to admit she might be falling in love with her best friend, Sophia, who she's known since they were four. Trying to pay off the fine from the crash that totals Lars, her beloved car, Claire takes a job at the local nursing home up the street from her house. There she meets Lena, an eighty-eight-year-old lesbian woman who tells her stories about what it was like growing up gay in the 1950s and '60s. As Claire spends more time with Lena and grows more confident of her identity, another girl, Pen, comes into the picture, and Claire is caught between two loves-one familiar and well-worn, the other new and untested. 2024 Bank Street Best Books of the Year List

Language

en

Published on

01/01/2023

Pages

336

Format

Kindle Edition

ISBN

9780374388447

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