Just Another Epic Love Poem

By Parisa Akhbari

Book Overview

In this queer literary romance, childhood friendship blossoms into heartfelt one-sided yearning which then evolves into something more.

"The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy."--Sonora Reyes, author of the National Book Award finalist The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

For the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book--a dog-eared notebook in which she and Bea have been exchanging poems since they were thirteen.

The rules of The Book are simple: No lies, no secrets, and no punctuation. This is a never-ending poem, as epic and everlasting as their friendship. Nothing is too messy or too complex for The Book--not Mitra's convoluted feelings about her absent mother, or Bea's heartache over her most recent breakup.

Nothing except the one thing with the power to change their entire friendship: the fact that Mitra is helplessly in love with Bea.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593530497
• ISBN13: 9780593530498
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher