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A review by booktrunks
We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia
4.0
Synopsis: Nandan wants to have a chill and fun junior year, he just needs to help his friend Dave with the ladies, get his ex to talk to him again, and keep the party vibes right. But, after a party one night when Nandan was helping Dave, they hooked up. Nandan has to undergo a complicated exploration of his own sexuality and hopes for the future.
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Thoughts: I really liked this book! I found the main character to be very unique and most of the characters to be very lovable. I saw a few pretty negative reviews of it on good reads before I read it, and I think it’s important to think of it as one individual’s coming out / beginning to explore sexuality story, not as a proposed template of how everyone should act while dating. I thought the characters were all really interesting, and this idea that Nandan would do whatever it took to feel that sense of comfort, intimacy, and normalcy in his friends, and just has no idea where the line between those wants and his own sexuality is was really fascinating to me. This book has a lot to think about in regards to how much we base our interactions with others on gender and sexuality, highlighting some of the good and bad tendencies we have. This was just the beginning of Nandan figuring it out I think, and there are a lot of readers out there who could connect to it.
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Thoughts: I really liked this book! I found the main character to be very unique and most of the characters to be very lovable. I saw a few pretty negative reviews of it on good reads before I read it, and I think it’s important to think of it as one individual’s coming out / beginning to explore sexuality story, not as a proposed template of how everyone should act while dating. I thought the characters were all really interesting, and this idea that Nandan would do whatever it took to feel that sense of comfort, intimacy, and normalcy in his friends, and just has no idea where the line between those wants and his own sexuality is was really fascinating to me. This book has a lot to think about in regards to how much we base our interactions with others on gender and sexuality, highlighting some of the good and bad tendencies we have. This was just the beginning of Nandan figuring it out I think, and there are a lot of readers out there who could connect to it.