True Letters from a Fictional Life

I don't feel like I've been lying to anyone, though. I mean, since I was little, everyone's told me that I like girls. Think about it—even when you're in kindergarten, there are all sorts of messages that eventually you'll grow up to like girls. Man, when you're barely able to walk people make these cutesy comments about your girlfriends and how you're going to be a lady killer and all sorts of crap like that. (...) And that's the story I was trying to make happen. I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.

— A pretty decent book about coming to accept one's identity and coming out. It was okay, but you know, once you've read something like [b:Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|19547856|Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1)|Becky Albertalli|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1402915678s/19547856.jpg|27679579], it's hard not to compare.