It's abundantly clear that Lee wrote this story with love and tenderness for eir community. The diverse cast of characters, pronouns and gender expressions creates opportunities for readers to finally see themselves represented in a book. " Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee unpacks how complicated and ever-evolving exploring gender can be against a fun backdrop of your favorite relationship tropes and teenage mishaps. "How lucky are we that this sweet, subversive, utter delight of a book exists? Meet Cute Diary is here to flip tropes and flip hearts." - Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon vs. “A poignant, heartfelt story about the complexities of identity, growing up, and defining ourselves.” - Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures In this charming novel by Emery Lee, Noah will have to choose between following his own rules for love or discovering that the most romantic endings are the ones that go off script.
But when Noah’s feelings grow beyond their staged romance, he realizes that dating in real life isn’t quite the same as finding love on the page. Then Drew walks into Noah’s life, and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn’t have any proof. When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah’s world unravels. What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans readers across the globe. There’s just one problem-all the stories are fake.
He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. * A 2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist Selection * A Junior Library Guild Selection *
Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships.
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