kimmie, dearest.

“It was hugely important to me that the cover accurately reflect the book’s two central characters, both of whom are girls of color (well, Medea is technically 3,000 years old, but she looks like a girl in the book), and the romance between them is a central focus of ‘About A Girl,’” McCarry said of the cover. “The extraordinary AIDS activist Pedro Zamora kissed his boyfriend on-screen (on MTV!) in 1994. I think 20 years later we should probably be able to handle girls kissing on a book cover.”

McCarry and Co. didn’t use a stock image to create the arresting cover, but, instead, worked with photographer Sandy Honig and models Lola Pellegrino and Kimmie David to create the photo.

i humbly propose the minimum standard of decency for even the chillest booty call be thus:

no behavior that would get a person fired from a summer job at the mall

no call no show

showing up visibly intoxicated

excessive private personal phone use

(reference for when i am trying to explain these to people and they are looking at me like “huh”):

the Bechdel test: does the story have a) more than one women, b) who talk to each other, c) about something other than a man.

Chapter 1: Feeling Weird Chapter 2: Structural Collapse Chapter 3: Let it Burn Chapter 4: Let it Bleed Chapter 5: You Can’t Use Anything or Anyone to Fix It Chapter 6: It’s Not About That Chapter 7: It’s About You Chapter 8: Ok We Waited Until Chapter 8 Because This is Heavy. It’s Actually About Death Chapter 9: Accept Death