Ode to My First Car, Robin Gow
Ode to My First Car, Robin Gow
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Ode to My First Car

Author: Robin Gow

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2023


Synopsis

A YA contemporary sapphic romance told in verse, by the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions, about a bisexual teen girl who falls in and out of love over the course of one fateful summer.It’s the summer before senior year and Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally starting to admit she might be falling in love with her best friend, Sophia, who she’s known since they were four.
Trying to pay off the fine from the crash that totals her beloved car, Lars, Claire takes a job at the local nursing home up the street from her house, where she meets Lena, an eighty-eight-year-old lesbian woman who tells her stories about what it was like growing up as gay in the 1950s and 60s.
As Claire spends more time with Lena and grows more confident of her identity, another girl, Pen, comes into the picture, and Claire is caught between two loves—one familiar and well-worn, the other new and untested.

Reviews

Goodreads review by lila on March 06, 2024

this was so real at its core. i didn’t enjoy it for the romance aspect because i found quite a few faults—both the characters hooking up with other people, having feelings for other people while being in love with each other—but that’s what made it messy and realistic in my opinion. i had so many mo......more

Goodreads review by Anniek on January 03, 2023

This was my second Robin Gow book, and I think I can safely add them to my list of favourite authors. I'm a huge fan of verse novels in general, but this is an especially gorgeous one. This book is one of those examples to illustrate how we really do still need coming out novels, but it's also so mu......more

Goodreads review by Star on December 03, 2023

I do love a novel in verse. But something about this one completely missed the mark for me.......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on December 12, 2024

Thank you to Macmillan Children's Publishing Group for the eARC of Ode to My First Car via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review! 2.5 stars. I really enjoyed A Million Quiet Revolutions, also by Robin Gow, when I read it last year, so I was ecstatic to read their new sapphic YA early. Unfortunate......more

Goodreads review by gray (my.rainbow.bookshelf) on August 06, 2023

3.5? There were some parts of this that I enjoyed and reminded me why I love Robin Gow's writing, but unfortunately they were very few and far between and overall this fell very flat :/......more