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What We Left Behind

Robin Talley

From the critically acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an emotional, empowering story of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all  Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. When they separate for their first year at collegeToni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYUthey're sure they'll be fine. Where other long-distance relationships have fallen apart, theirs is bound to stay rock-solid.  The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected. Toni, who identifies as genderqueer, meets a group of transgender upperclassmen and immediately finds a sense of belonging that has always been missing, but Gretchen struggles to remember who she is outside their relationship.  As distance and Toni's shifting gender identity begin to wear on their relationship, the couple must decidehave they grown apart for good, or is love enough to keep them together?

GenresFiction, gayNew york (n.y.), fiction

384 pages

English edition · First published 2016 by HarperCollins · ISBN 9781460399040

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