Everyone should read Needlework by Julia Watts. It is an adorable yet realistically tough book about a gay boy who wants to be Dolly Parton (as a drag queen, except he barely has the words for that) in rural Kentucky. He loves to quilt and cook with his grandma and his best (girl) friend, but neither of them realizes he’s gay and everything kind of goes south when they do. He’s also got an addict mother and a dad in jail for armed robbery, but Kody is going to make it work, and you know? I really believed that by the end. Lovely, lovely book.
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