I Wish You All the Best

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Mason Deaver: I Wish You All the Best (2020, Scholastic, Incorporated)

336 pages

English language

Published June 30, 2020 by Scholastic, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-1-338-60835-9
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4 stars (2 reviews)

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.

But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.

At turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration …

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Ben is non-binary. 10 years after their sister left home without a word, they come out to their parents as a high school senior. They kick them out, and the sister they haven't spoken to in a decade takes them in, gets them enrolled in the high school her husband teaches at and is generally a good sister. One of Ben's classmates is Nathan, and the two become closer while Ben is figuring out their new life, but Ben is back in the closet from everyone except their sister, and they are afraid to share who they are with Nathan even as they both begin developing feelings for each other. The asshole parents make a reappearance. Ben eventually comes out to their friends at school. The part about Nate's sexuality in relation to a non-binary partner is kinda glossed over but the ending is generally happy.