Hardcover – 400 pages

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance.

“The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy.” National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author ofThe Lesbianas Guide to Catholic School

Over the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Booka dogeared moleskin she and Bea have been filling with the stanzas of an epic, never-ending poem since they were 13.

For introverted Mitra, The Book is one of the few places she can open herself completely and where she gets to see all sides of brilliant and ebullient Bea. There, they can share everythingMitras complicated feelings about her absent mother, Beas heartache over her most recent breakupnothing too messy or complicated for The Book.

Nothing except the one thing with the power to change their entire friendship: the fact that Mitra is helplessly in love with Bea.

Told in lyrical, confessional prose and snippets of poetryJust Another Epic Love Poemtakes readers on a journey that is equal parts joyful, heartbreaking, and funny as Mitra and Bea navigate the changing nature ofI love you.