Miles starts lessons with a new teacher who is determined to get him to 'be himself' through his music.but how can Miles do that when he is still piecing together what that means in his life?Įnter new boy Eric, who captures Miles' eye and attention with his quiet confidence and instant acceptance. Miles also has a VERY important state-wide piano competition coming up and he HAS to defeat his conceited arch enemy.
After coming out as trans and queer, he lost his former love Shane, after a year-long romance.and he is determined to win him back. Miles hasn't had an easy year, but now that January has rolled around, he's made a couple of resolutions. "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."-Victor HugoĪn emotional and heartwarming story of self-discovery and what it means to TRULY show the world who you are, with no holds barred! Martin's Press/Wednesday Books, and Edward Underhill for an ARC of this book! Now available as of 2.14!** So why, when he’s with Eric, does it feel like the only person he’s ever really not been enough for.is himself? Nothing’s ever been as easy for him as for other people-other boys. He’s not even good enough at piano to get his fellow competitors to respect him, especially now, as Miles.
After all, it's not like he’s cool or confident or comfortable in his own skin.
If only Miles could figure out why Eric likes him so much. But after Eric and Miles pretend to date so they can score an invite to a couples-only Valentine’s party, the ruse turns real with a kiss, which is also definitely not in the plan. Not what he needs to be focusing on right now. Then Miles meets the new boy in town, Eric Mendez, a proudly queer cartoonist from Seattle who asks his pronouns, cares about art as much as he does-and makes his stomach flutter. Plus, Miles’ new, slightly terrifying piano teacher keeps telling him that he’s playing like he “doesn’t know who he is”-whatever that means.
For one thing, Shane broke up with Miles two weeks after Miles came out as trans, and now Shane’s stubbornly ignoring him, even when they literally bump into each other. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year’s resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and star of the football team) Shane McIntyre, and 2) finally beat his slimy arch-nemesis at the Midwest’s biggest classical piano competition. A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win back his ex, but a new boy complicates things in Edward Underhill's heartfelt debut YA rom-dram, Always the Almost.
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