All the Things We Don’t Talk About
Morgan Flowers just wants to hide. Raised by their neurodivergent father, Morgan has grown up haunted by the absence of their mysterious mother Zoe, especially now, as they navigate their gender identity and the turmoil of first love. Their father Julian has raised Morgan with care, but he can’t quite fill the gap left by the dazzling and destructive Zoe, who fled to Europe on Morgan’s first birthday. And when Zoe is dumped by her girlfriend Brigid, she suddenly comes crashing back into Morgan and Julian’s lives, poised to disrupt the fragile peace they have so carefully cultivated.
Through it all, Julian and Brigid have become unlikely pen-pals and friends, united by the knowledge of what it’s like to love and lose Zoe; they both know that she hasn’t changed. Despite the red flags, Morgan is swiftly drawn into Zoe’s glittering orbit and into a series of harmful missteps, and Brigid may be the only link that can pull them back from the edge. A story of betrayal and trauma alongside queer love and resilience, ALL THE THINGS WE DON’T TALK ABOUT is a celebration of and a reckoning with the power and unintentional pain of a thoroughly modern family.
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Praise & Reviews for
All the Things We Don’t Talk About
One of Good Housekeeping’s 40 Fantastic LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride Month (and Beyond)
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One of Electric Literarture’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for Summer 2022
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“Solidly in the category of worthwhile reads… a multidimensional family drama.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Feltman’s writing succeeds in depicting… characters with nuance and grace… readers are sure to find characters to root for and identify with.”
—Booklist
“A nuanced portrait of a nonbinary teen’s coming-of-age amid intense family dynamics… Feltman brings empathy and moments of grace to her characters.”
—Publishers Weekly
“All the Things We Don't Talk About is big-hearted, humane, and governed by a keen emotional intelligence; Feltman has deftly drawn a lively and expansive portrait of a family that I grew to love and was sad to leave.”
―Claire Lombardo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
“As contemporary and surprising as it is acutely felt, Amy Feltman's All The Things We Don't Talk About explores all the ways we get in our own way as we try and fail and try again to care for one another; how love that's flawed can still be fierce and true, worth fighting for."
—Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want
"All the Things We Don’t Talk About is a deeply moving, intimate family saga, and one of those rare novels that is attuned to the smallest shifts within each character. Amy Feltman is a master storyteller and keeps us on our toes until the very end."
—Sanaë Lemoine, author of The Margot Affair
“Serving up nuance, ambivalence, texture, and joy with a splash of humor, All the Things We Don't Talk About is the queer domestic novel of my dreams. It's all here—the ways families are evolving and must evolve into our increasingly liberated and uncertain future, deep examinations of class privilege, and deeply moving characters.”
—Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl
“Original and layered, this evocatively modern story centers a nonbinary teen, their neurodivergent father and the woman who abandoned them both, who unexpectedly turns up out of the blue.”
—Ms Magazine