These are the words of Fereshteh Angel Rahimi, the fandom-obsessed protagonist of Alice Oseman’s I Was Born For This.The 2018 book focuses on Angel and her obsession with the boy band Ark, and is told from two perspectives: Angel’s, and Jimmy Kaga-Ricci’s, the Ark’s guitar/keys player. Employing even pacing, enticing alternating perspectives, and a cinematic writing style that continually builds tension, Oseman capably explores myriad facets of experience, spanning gender and sexual identity, ethnicity, and religion. In an otherwise mediocre existence, we choose to feel passion. When Angel and Jimmy’s lives suddenly converge, the two teens grapple with their respective internal struggles while offering mutual support. Meanwhile, Ark’s front man, Indian and Italian 19-year-old Jimmy, struggles to keep his trans identity private from fans and manage his anxiety-especially when a photo of him and Black-cued bandmate Rowan goes viral, ostensibly supporting the popular theory that they are secretly a couple. news and updates only she/they Born OctoJoined April 2013. creator of YA novels and webcomic HEARTSTOPPER. After arriving in London, however, Juliet reveals she has also invited her crush, sidelining Angel. new york times bestselling author, illustrator/comic artist, screenwriter. Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and think about me and what I want. Eighteen-year-old Iranian-cued Fereshteh “Angel” Rahimi is meeting her online best friend, white-cued Juliet, for the first time IRL they’re set to spend an epic week together, culminating in a concert by mega-popular boy band The Ark. Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This 21 likes Like It carries on. In this immersive, character-driven drama, Oseman (the Heartstopper series) thoughtfully highlights the cost of celebrity on one’s mental health alongside the ways in which online fandoms can both build community and fan the flames of obsession and parasocial behavior. I Was Born for This - Alice Oseman The third novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021.

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