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Often shelved as an adult novel, this book features a biromantic asexual Black main character in her first year of college.

[Often shelved as an adult novel, this book features a biromantic asexual Black main character in her first year of college.]

 

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What is Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann?

[What is Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann?]

 

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Cover of Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Alice had her whole summer planned. Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting--working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). Alice is done with dating--no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done.

But then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and swoons, oh my!).

When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn, and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library employee badge (close enough), Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated—or understood.  (Adapted from publisher.)

 

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The asexual identity exists on a spectrum, and asexuality is generally used as an umbrella term for different sub-identities.  Asexual people – also known as “Ace” or “Aces” – may have little interest in having sex, but still desire emotionally intimate relationships (though not always).  Aces commonly use hetero-, homo-, bi-, and pan- in front of the word romantic to describe who they experience romantic attraction to. For example, Alice from Let's Talk About Love is bi-romantic, meaning she is attracted to people of the same or different sex or gender as her, but not in a sexual way.

 

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By Sean on April 5, 2022