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.
