I’m reading this for a book club this weekend. It’s a pretty easy read so far. Valerie (FMC) is a biracial teen growing up in a culty and very white Christian nationalist denomination. She is finding it difficult to conform and repress in a way that will make her family happy and doesn’t understand what’s wrong with her. Between a book she snuck out of the library and a new friend, Riley, Valerie might have the tools she needs to understand that there is nothing wrong with her and her feelings.

It might be hard for people with religious trauma, parental trauma from a patriarchal household, or come from highly homophobic environments. It is written for a YA audience.