“Book Descriptions: ‘show me your face’ is an explicit navigation of ambiguous sexual relationships in teenage years. Danielle Chelosky threads together a voyeuristic catalog of boys with detailed experiences and screenshots of messages. There’s the pitiable 24-year-old Reed who plants painful hickeys on her bottom lip and babbles about his ex-girlfriend in between makeout sessions. There’s Jack, who’s only a year her senior yet seems to have a powerful hold over her, calling her pet names like ‘angel’ and ‘baby’ while posting photos of other girls online. This becomes more complicated as she goes from 16 to 17—the age of consent in New York—and the expectations of her begin to change. “I never knew what men wanted me to be: a dirty slut or a pure virgin.”” DRIVE
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