There is also plenty of humor, particularly when it comes to Benedict’s inability to filter his thoughts and words. Told in alternating and delightfully distinct first-person chapters, this novel is a profoundly open and honest exploration of teen identity, sexuality, and connection. It is only when fate intervenes and the two wind up at the same resort over winter vacation that dark-olive–skinned Pen and white Benedict both find each other and find themselves. Only this isn’t who they really are at all. Foulmouthed, 16-year-old Pen is a cool girl with tight, black clothes and a popular boyfriend. Intelligent and painfully socially awkward, 16-year-old Benedict lives life perfectly, as described by his father in his bestselling book, Being a Perfect Person. Benedict Pendleton and Penelope Lupo are the unlikeliest of unlikely high school couples.
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