Tell Me How You Really Feel

Freshman year, cheerleader Sana Khan worked up the nerve to ask out Rachel Recht, and Rachel, an intense film buff convinced it was a prank, never forgave her. Now seniors at an exclusive Los Angeles private school, they are thrown together when Rachel, desperate for the perfect lead for her senior film project, realizes the only girl who fits is the one she has scorned for three years, and Sana, who never got over that first crush, says yes. Told in alternating viewpoints against an L.A. spring, their collaboration peels back assumptions about class, family pressure and each other. Billed as an ode to romantic comedies, it earned Kirkus's praise as a queer romance that will sweep readers away.