Levithan, a popular Young Adult author and an editorial director at Scholastic, has had the inspired idea of writing the story of a love relationship
in the form of a dictionary. Each word, from aberrant to zenith, defines
the language of love, while adding to the reader's knowledge and understanding of the male lovers' partnership. Interestingly, each definition is told from the point of view and in the first-person voice of only one of the partners. The other partner's voice remains silent throughout except as quoted by the narrator. Nevertheless, both come wonderfully alive, emerging as complex, multidimensional human beings, happy and unhappy, ebullient and angry, sweet and sour, and so - delightfully - forth.
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