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A modern Perks of Being A Wallflower Addie Tsai’s Dear Twin is a work of fiction with a lot of hard truths about coming-of-age and not quite knowing what to do when everything about your future feels like it’s on standby.

whateverimsleepy's review against another edition

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5.0

What a gem of a novel. I had the opportunity to read an early draft of Dear Twin and diving back in after its publication has been such a treat! Tsai's writing is lush, thoughtful, and quiet. I was rooting for Poppy from start to finish. The mystery of what happened to Lola had me racing towards the end, and I love how the story slowly unfolds through letters. Poppy and Juniper's relationship is *chef's kiss* and there's nothing better than a happy ending for two queer characters of color. 5/5.

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4.0

Like Tegan and Sara's HIGH SCHOOL, really captures the headf*ckery of twinship and all the crap people project onto twins (my own writing about twins and twinship exploits all that stuff in a way that I hope is self-conscious and critical?), written by someone who is a twin. This is fiction, but feels very grounded in personal experience, even as the story is refracted through multiple literary and pop culture sources. Nabokov's Lolita a major one -- if Lolita had a twin who wrote her a novel, this would be it. Plus a super sweet, occasionally cloying queer romance offering lightness in what is ultimately a painful story.

zoeqs's review

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emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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