Really beautiful writing with lots of humor and heartbreak. Emotional, reflective, and largely character-driven. Ambitious and messy but worth your time. I read this after reading Tommy Orange's latest and feel their writing styles really complement each other.

"Cyrus paused for a second. He felt a flash of familiar shame--his whole life had been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked, and struggling, mostly failing, to translate to anyone else how and why everything mattered so much. He realized he was perhaps doing what Sad James had once called The Thing, the overliking thing, obsessing over something in a way that others felt to be smothering."