A review by elainarkk
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

emotional reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

While reading this book--I have to forget the age difference, specifically the way Elio is still seventeen and Oliver is twenty-four. When I am successful in this, I am overwhelmed by the beauty of this book: by the realness of crushing love, by the desire to, at once, be with and be the person you admire. Time and memory and sexuality and aging--existing in the repetition of life, waiting for the next step of the pattern to repeat itself. This book is life-changing, certainly, even as it challenges me. (Which is maybe the best kind of book?)
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