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Dear Wendy

by Ann Zhao

Online advice, offline connection

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Online advice, offline connection

Set during the first year of college, Dear Wendy brings together two students who share an aromantic and asexual identity but approach campus relationship advice from opposite sides of an online rivalry. Sophie’s popular “Dear Wendy” account is a secret; Jo’s “Sincerely Wanda” began as a joke. As their accounts clash, the story also makes room for questions of gender identity, belonging, friendship, and what it means to be loved without romantic attraction. The tension between their public personas and growing real-life connection gives the novel a framework for exploring queer identity and the different forms intimacy can take.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in queer college fiction
  • Readers seeking stories about aromantic and asexual identities
  • Readers interested in friendship and relationship advice as story themes

Themes

Aromantic and asexual identityQueer identity and genderFriendship and belongingOnline personas and advice

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Book overview

Two aromantic and asexual college students explore friendship, relationships, and queer identities in this bestselling debut described as"The platonic love story of my dreams!" by Alice Oseman, New York Times-bestselling creator of Heartstopper!

Sophie Chi is in her first year of college and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she'll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she's behind the incredibly popular "Dear Wendy" account.

When Joanna "Jo" Ephron (also a first-year student and aroace) created their "Sincerely Wanda" account, it wasn't at all meant to be taken seriously. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Wendy's account? Oops. As if Jo's not busy enough having existential crises over gender identity, whether she'll ever truly be loved, and the possibility of her few friends finding The One then forgetting about her!

While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo grow closer in real life, especially once they realize their shared aroace identity. Will their friendship survive if they learn just who's behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?

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