in the Young Adult Hardcover category. Kiyoko recently spoke with Vulture about adapting her breakout song and music video into a book, her recent. What was it like building that out into a novel?
It was a very long process. The origin of the music video was my personal experience of falling in love with my best friend in high school. That ended in heartbreak, but I wanted the video to end in hope. When I had the opportunity to write the novel, I was navigating these fictional characters and having to figure out how to take the characters from the video and tell my personal story through the setup I had created, which I had no idea I wanted to expand at the time.
The adults in the book, in particular Coley’s dad and her co-worker Kendrick, don’t really call attention to her sexuality when she decides to confide in them. There’s no big traumatic “coming out” to them, and later, Coley sees Kendrick and his boyfriend as an example of a gay couple who aren’t in hiding. Was that dynamic intentional?
I feel like a lot of queer people have one person or one experience they remember forever where someone just normalized them and made them feel like they were human, that their sexuality wasn’t this flaw.
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