Stephen Kearse recommends
I Love You So Much it's Killing Us Both (2024)
Mariah Stovall
"You don't need a prior relationship to the sounds and saints of punk, emo, and hardcore to get swept into the currents of Stovall's pulsing storytelling. Her debut artfully dilates the cruel intimacy of one teenage friendship into a dark but tender treatise on hunger, compulsion, and identity. If you've ever loved - a person, a hobby, a song - so intensely it hurt; this mosh pit of a novel will offer you both sanctuary and feedback."
