Ophelia After All

By Racquel Marie

Book Overview

California Book Award Winner
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

Spend senior year with Ophelia A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All, a hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by author Racquel Marie.

Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys - way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless stream of crushes, but Ophelia is a romantic at heart. She couldn't change, even if she wanted to.

So when she finds herself thinking more about cute, quiet Talia Sanchez than the loss of a perfect prom with her ex-boyfriend, seeds of doubt take root in Ophelia's firm image of herself. Add to that the impending end of high school and the fracturing of her once-solid friend group, and things are spiraling a little out of control. But the course of love--and sexuality--never did run smooth. As her secrets begin to unravel, Ophelia must make a choice between clinging to the fantasy version of herself she's always imagined or upending everyone's expectations to rediscover who she really is, after all.

"Ophelia Rojas is the type of character that leaps off the page and directly into your heart--Ophelia After All is a queer delight through and through." --Leah Johnson, bestselling author of You Should See Me in a Crown

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250797306
• ISBN13: 9781250797308
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Be Yourself, messiness and all!

I liked this book. I think it is important, so important nowadays for these kinds of stories to be written to let teens know that what they are going through, in trying to figure out who they are, is normal though it may lead to a different direction than they were planning. The author uses a sweet and loveable cast of characters to get his point across with the main one being Ophelia of course. I love that she is so into botany with her roses and such. It adds a nice touch and helps to round out her character. This is based in the tumultuous time, right before prom and graduation and that adds to the excitement and turmoil with Ophelia trying to decide who she wants to go with. It was cool to follow her as she kinda veered from her usual "boy crazy" type to new territory in Talia. And though it was tough and made a lot of changes to her plans, it was real and showed that no matter who your are or what your interests are, you are ever changing and that is something everyone should no. This was a good book and a good thing to read to start off this new year!