bibliotequeish 's review for:

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

4.0

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In a concert band you're arranged into sections so that the instruments and sounds in your ear are the most similar yo your own. So that what surrounds you is 'you' to a degree. it's easier to know your clarinet part when you're not fighting against a cello of one side and a tuba on the other. Highschool friend groups are something like an ensemble in that way. My friends are certified oddballs, the inkblots on an otherwise pure white page and its why we work together so well, because as long as they're my people as long as they are the ones on my left and my right sometimes I can forget that I don't fit in anywhere in this town.

This was a fast book that hit a lot of topics. Illness, inclusion, race, death, social class, highschool friendship, betrayal, dreams.
How this author packed so much in a cute highschool love story without being preachy, is a skill.