Tash has also struck up an online friendship with Thom, a fellow vlogger, and soon they’re emailing and texting and bantering and flirting. )Ī quick summary: Tash is an aspiring film director who, along with her best friend Jack, is producing a web series adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina titled Unhappy Families, which has just gone viral thanks to a famous vlogger giving it a shout-out. I also don’t care that much whether it is or not, because Every Heart a Doorway was #ownvoices, and, well, see above. (Side note: I have no clue whether Tash Hearts Tolstoy is #ownvoices. As an ace-spectrum/gray-ace person, I was curious to see how Tash’s asexuality would be portrayed, especially since the last book I read with an ace protagonist, Every Heart a Doorway, had people praising it ad infinitum for its representation of asexuality when, in reality, it sucked. The book is, to my knowledge, the first YA novel published by Big Five imprint to feature an explicitly asexual protagonist. I first read Tash Hearts Tolstoy last August. I had meant to have this this piece up waaaaay earlier.
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