Adib Khorram

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theater Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker—but one thing he’s not is a romantic. And why would he be? He’s already had a front row seat to his parents’ divorce and picked up the pieces of his sister Jasmine’s broken heart one too many times. No, Jackson is perfectly happy living life behind the scenes—he is a stage manager, after all—and keeping his romantic exploits limited to the breakup lists he makes for Jasmine, which chronicle every flaw (real or imagined) of her various and sundry exes. Enter Liam: the senior swim captain turned leading man that neither of the Ghasnavi siblings stop thinking about. Not that Jackson has a crush, of course. Jasmine is already setting her sights on him and he’s probably—no, definitely—straight anyway. So why does the idea of eventually writing a breakup list for him feel so impossible?

The Breakup Lists

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Then again, Liam’s never been homophobic, unless you count him being nice to me: Straight guys being nice to gay guys is kind of homophobic as is.

Truth be told, my family has been more comfortable with me being queer than they’ve ever been with me being disabled.

If I have to murder an actor during dress rehearsal, does that count as first or second degree?

The sun is out, which seems mildly homophobic since between the brightness and my tears, I can barely see.

“Sometimes it’s like you get so caught up in what you do, you forget it’s okay to celebrate who you are.”

“Not knowing where to put your anger isn’t the same thing as being mean.

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