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This reads as a personal origin story about becoming a reader and writer through a single cultural doorway. It suggests that devotion to one influence can open the way to making art of your own, and it lands for anyone whose early habits of reading, fandom, and imitation quietly became a creative education.
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Books by Adam Silvera
They Both Die at the End
2017
History Is All You Left Me
2022
More happy than not
2016
The First to Die at the End
2022
The First to Die at the End
2022