It Looks Like This, Rafi Mittlefehldt
It Looks Like This, Rafi Mittlefehldt
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It Looks Like This

Author: Rafi Mittlefehldt

Narrator: Will Ropp

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/06/2016

Synopsis

In spare, understated prose heightened by a keen lyricism, a debut author will take your breath away.A new state, a new city, a new high school. Mike’s father has already found a new evangelical church for the family to attend, even if Mike and his plainspoken little sister, Toby, don’t want to go. Dad wants Mike to ditch art for sports, to toughen up, but there’s something uneasy behind his demands. Then Mike meets Sean, the new kid, and “hey” becomes games of basketball, partnering on a French project, hanging out after school. A night at the beach. The fierce colors of sunrise. But Mike’s father is always watching. And so is Victor from school, cell phone in hand. In guarded, Carveresque prose that propels you forward with a sense of stomach-dropping inevitability, Rafi Mittlefehldt tells a wrenching tale of first love and loss that exposes the undercurrents of a tidy suburban world. Heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming, It Looks Like This is a novel of love and family and forgiveness—not just of others, but of yourself.

About Rafi Mittlefehldt

Rafi Mittlefehldt grew up in Texas, where he worked as a reporter for a small-town newspaper. He now lives in New York City, where he works in book publishing and freelances as a theater critic for Exeunt magazine. This is his debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Taylor on July 25, 2016

I'm bothered by a lot of things about this book. The complete lack of quotation marks with the dialogue so annoying and I didn't see how it benefited the story. It made the entire story seem very flat and didn't have any emotion. I didn't find this book to be particularly different from a bunch of o......more

Goodreads review by Martha on May 11, 2017

I'm gonna say this up front: I would not give this book to queer teens. I thought it was heartbreaking, and captivating, and a vital thing for people to read and understand, but I would not put it in the hands of vulnerable queer teens looking for literature that they can see themselves in. I would......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on February 06, 2017

actual rating: 3.5 one of my goals this year is to read more books with diverse characters and stories and i'm hoping to get this goal done for 2017. This book deals with LGBT issues and the struggles that comes with it being in a very christian heavy family. This story did open up my mind and eyes......more

Goodreads review by Martin on June 09, 2018

This book was very hard to rate. It is one of those books in which two thirds are OK but then the ending has a major impact on you – shatters you. The way how the dialogues were presented (no quotations marks) made a very unedited, repetitive impression; this disrupted my reading flow on more than o......more

Goodreads review by TJ on March 09, 2017

This is a very important book. It shook me to my core. I felt as if I was actually living the events in this story; possibly because my life echoed it once. It's a story about self acceptance and the pressures of unsupportive family, also friendship and first loves. Beautiful book. A new favorite. 5......more

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