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- Nonbinary MC navigating rejection & self-discovery
- Chosen family heals where blood fails
- Anxiety rep that doesn't perform or preach
- Slow-burn queer love built on tiny gestures
If Eleanor and Park taught you that misfit love survives on mixtapes and stolen glances, Ben De Backer's world will feel startlingly familiar—anxiety spiraling in a new town, family that wounds instead of shelters, and one person who sees through the fear without demanding explanations. Deaver trades comic books for unspoken pronouns, but the currency remains identical: small kindnesses that crack you open when grand gestures would shatter. This isn't queer trauma porn or inspirational bootstrapping—it's the raw arithmetic of learning your own name after everyone else tried to write your story.
Nathan's patience doesn't fix Ben; it witnesses them. Every panic attack lands without melodrama, every chosen-family dinner table moment earns its weight. The hope here refuses to apologize for existing.
Deaver trades comic books for unspoken pronouns, but the currency remains identical.
What Readers Are Saying
"Thank you! Literally sitting on the deck right now with book next to me, yet still drawn to my screen. Going to make this my last post, then put the phone down!" — BeezyH105, Reddit
"Oh the feeling of mile-high expectations actually being fulfilled: pure bliss. I have waited so long for this book to be released and it checks every single box. A wonderful, emotional, important and romantic read." — Kai Spellmeier, Goodreads
"I Wish You All the Best is a beautiful, moving book about everyone's right to be happy with who they are, and their need to be surrounded by love and friendship." — Larry H, Goodreads
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