I Wish You All the Best Review

    If you want a book that is an LGBTQIA+ book that isn't just L, G, or B then do I have the book for you. The main character, as well as the author, are non-binary, and the book is about Ben De Becker and their life after coming out to their parents as non-binary. Within the first chapter, their parents kick them out and so they call their sister who they haven't talked to since she left and they stay with her and her husband during their last semester of high school. At the new school, Ben decides not to come out at their new school in fear of what they will face.
  Honestly, in terms of a synopsis, I don't want to give much more because I highly recommend people read this. I, like probably many other people, had never read a book by a non-binary person and I think this book felt... real. It didn't feel like Ben's entire personality revolved around them being non-binary. I also love the strained relationship between Ben and their sister, I feel like most novels either develop a great relationship between family, an abusive relationship that's used as a plot point, or a non-existent family to make the plot easier; but I've been loving strained familial relationship because there are so many people having neither a good or bad relationship with their family and they don't want to just cut all ties with their family but feel guilty that they don't have that great relationship and this showed that. It showed how we can separate from people and decide that we need to work and improve our relationship and it shows that blood doesn't mean that you have to forgive someone. Also, this book does such a good job of explaining therapy. Not only is the therapy used to help Ben, but also explained to them, and to us, that it's meant to help, not to stigmatize.