Beating Heart Baby, Lio Min
Beating Heart Baby, Lio Min
List: $26.99 | Sale: $18.89
Club: $13.49

Beating Heart Baby

Author: Lio Min

Narrator: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Jensen Silvio

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/26/2022


Synopsis

Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby is a “dizzying, sexy, and utterly heartfelt” (Mary H. K. Choi) love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock

When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy Suwa, who doesn’t think Santi has what it takes to be in the band.

But Santi and Suwa share painful pasts, and when they open up to each other, a tentative friendship begins. And soon, that friendship turns into something more. . . .

Will their fresh start rip at the seams as Suwa seeks out a solo spotlight, and both boys come to terms with what it'll take, and what they'll have to let go, to realize their dreams?

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

About Lio Min

Lio Min is the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby, a longtime music reporter, a MacDowell fellow, and a fullmetal optimist. The L.O.V.E. Club is their second novel. Min lives in Oakland, California, and writes toward the future.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke

Please, read this gem about music, dreams, and first love between two boys (one trans)!!! It’s utterly gorgeous, amazing, incredible, and mind-blowing! I found Beating Heart Baby on Edelweiss/NetGalley and fell for the sweet and intimate cover. My request for an ARC kept pending and pending, and in t......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

Super super cute book. Beating Heart Baby follows a romance between a mixed Korean-Japanese and mixed Filipino-Latino gay teenaged couple as they search for one another and themselves. Leo Min includes a lot of elements that I imagine will resonate with those who had quirky interests in high school......more

“all night, i repeated like a mantra in my head: don’t forget don’t forget don’t forget. we all found each other. that is the truly impossible part.” 3 years ago, santi’s internet best friend, memo, vanishes after he accidentally leaks memo’s song. now, santi arrives in la where his school’s marc......more

“if only the foundation of my work wasn’t built on, as i’d phrased it, ‘a harmony that fell to pieces / from a fanfare to a whisper / broken of and with devotion.’” santi arrives in los angeles ready for a new start. he’s still trying to get over losing his best friend, memo, after he accidentally l......more


Awards

  • Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
  • BookPage Best Books of the Year