High schoolers Santi and Suwa open up to being loved in this stunning novel, Beating Heart Baby, described as a love letter to internet friendships, indie music and the magical language of tenderness.

Lio Min has devoted their life to writing about music, magic and sadness at the locus of queer youth culture and metamorphic Asia America. Their culture reporting and fiction have appeared in The FADER, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and Them., among others. Their debut YA novel Beating Heart Baby, which the Los Angeles Times called "alive with ache, grief, hunger, love, pain and awe," follows two boys as they fall in and out of internet friendships, first love, family, fandom, and reckon with the relationship between identity and art.

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