Just Another Epic Love Poem - Hardcover

by Parisa Akhbari (Author)

In this queer literary romance, childhood friendship blossoms into heartfelt one-sided yearning which then evolves into something more.

"The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy."--Sonora Reyes, author of the National Book Award finalist The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

For the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book--a dog-eared notebook in which she and Bea have been exchanging poems since they were thirteen.

The rules of The Book are simple: No lies, no secrets, and no punctuation. This is a never-ending poem, as epic and everlasting as their friendship. Nothing is too messy or too complex for The Book--not Mitra's convoluted feelings about her absent mother, or Bea's heartache over her most recent breakup.

Nothing except the one thing with the power to change their entire friendship: the fact that Mitra is helplessly in love with Bea.

Author Biography

Parisa Akhbari is a writer and mental health therapist from Seattle, Washington. When not writing or therapizing, she can be found trying to replicate her grandmother's drool-worthy Persian recipes, hanging out with disability community, and marathoning sci-fi movies with her partner and dogs. Just Another Epic Love Poem is her debut novel.