Felix's ethnicity seems to have no cultural richness, surfacing primarily when he’s being marginalized for his race, poverty, and gender. 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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