If Aristotle and Dante were to meet in these modern times, would they stand out?
Dante loves reading poetry, while Aristotle gets pleasure from learning truths, something Dante knows plenty. Both of them are loners, preferring each other's company rather than a fake crowd. But will Dante confessing he's fallen in love with Ari break the best of friends forever?
Benjamin Alire Sáenz focused on sections and not chapters, a remembrance that life is divided by a series of beginnings and endings, and often when we least expect it. The book tackles several LGBT themes like coming out to oneself and to others and hazing. Also taking on family issues such as non-communicative parents, something I relate with the older generations of the Latino community. Ari had a strong personality, making it easy to be in his head, but not too easy to get inside his heart. It was sweet to see how Dante tried.
An inspiring story that reminds us you can't hurry love.
This sounds like such a sweet story! Thank you for recommending :-)
ReplyDeleteEsty @ Boarding with Books
My pleasure :) Really liked this one.
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