TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akhbari,Parisa
TI  - Just another epic love poem: nothing ruins a friendship like falling in love 
SN  - 9780593530498
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dial Books
KW  - Bisexual teenagers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Iranian American teenagers
KW  - Lesbian teenagers
KW  - Mexican American teenage girls
KW  - Best friends
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Love
KW  - Quakers
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Queer fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bisexual fiction
KW  - Lesbian fiction
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - LGBTQ+
KW  - Young adult fiction
N1  - Ages 14 and up; Dial Books
N2  - For the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortage and The Book--a dog-eared notebook in which she and Bea have been exchanging poems since they were thirteen. The rule 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 of 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. Written in lyrical prose and snippets of poetry, Parisa Akhbari's debut novel brilliantly captures the euphoria and heartache of a friendship evolving into something more
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