He’s a gorgeous, confident, intelligent amputee who always loses video games because he tries to save everyone. Sparks fly when Hazel Grace Lancaster spies Augustus “Gus” Waters checking her out across the room in a group-therapy session for teens living with cancer. She’s fighting the brown fluid in her lungs caused by tumors. He’s in remission from the osteosarcoma that took one of his legs. Elliot is assumed White there is some ethnic diversity in secondary characters.Ī fresh, funny, college-set, coming-of-age tale. Unabashedly sex-positive and queer, this story is mostly light and breezy, but it has serious moments as well. She’s a well-crafted, messy character who makes mistakes but ultimately means well. While it’s sometimes over-the-top, it all fits with Elliot’s exuberant persona. Elliot’s meta, first-person narration is conversational and often hilarious, with footnotes and sections directly addressing readers and inviting their participation.
As the year progresses, Elliot learns more about who she is, what she wants, and what it takes to be a good friend and romantic partner. Additionally, her courses are more of a struggle than she expected, and her behavior results in friendship hurdles. This comes to fruition but isn’t as fulfilling as she thought, especially as she dwells on a conversation with Rose Knightley, her gorgeous resident adviser, about what constitutes good sex. Elliot’s primary goal is to sleep with many people of any gender and with no commitments. She immediately becomes close friends with her roommate, Lucy Garabedian, who comes from a large Armenian American family and has far more ambitious college and career plans than she does. In this story loosely inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma, Elliot is an outgoing, undeclared, new student at Boston’s Emerson College.
Elliot McHugh chronicles a freshman year of college filled with new friends and sexual escapades.
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