Sometimes the Girl

Here, though, now, I'm not a younger sister, a daughter, a sorta ex-girlfriend. I'm not Holiday, or Holi, or even Hol. I'm not the sum of my experiences: of classrooms and clubs and pain that hurts too much to share.

I am cells and stardust, heart and hands and breath.

★ A Stonewall Honor Book for Young Adult Literature
★ A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection
★ A Kirkus Best Teen/YA Book of 2025

I cannot see down any of the paths before me. The curves are sharp, the darkness sometimes absolute. But I believe that the broken can heal. I believe in the hands and minds and hearts around me.

I believe.

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