I just finished reading “I Kissed Shara Wheeler”. This book affected me so much. Being a queer kid at a religious school when you aren’t religious is torture. Being a queer kid at a religious school when you ARE religious is torture. The experience is something that I have literally never seen in a book before. I have never felt so seen reading any piece of literature in my life. Casey McQuiston got EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of going to a private christian school right. mandatory chapel? fucking bible class? gendered dress code? the homophobia? the racism? the rules and regulations that make no fucking sense? Not only the good, but some of the bad too.
Casey McQuinston writing I Kissed Shara Wheeler: So I wrote this book and its going to call out and maybe emotionally injure the gays, the burnt out gift kids,people with religious trauma and people wanting genuine friendships xoxo enjoy.
Am I just supposed to move on from a book where there is a renegade prom queen, a bisexual with a general disdain for everyone, a hopeless romantic songwriter who’d do anything rather than show a hint of emotion and a emotional support jock with sunshine energy who might be genderqueer?? I think not.
When they communicate through poetries and historical references and when they communicate through dedicating songs to each other on the radio and when they communicate through handwritten letters which are also a trail of clues
