The heart-shattering first installment of the Avra and Kieran trilogy , QUEERING HIM chronicles the tumultuous and boundary defying love story of two mesmerizing characters caught beneath “an onslaught of shared grief and wanting so sweet, so vicious, it made bloodhounds of them both: each starved for likeness, each finding it.”

Openly bisexual and one of the few Jewish students in her rural Connecticut high school, Avra Bergmann develops a thick skin. Only her classmate Kieran – privileged, athletic, popular, and viciously fixated on her—regularly gets under it. But behind his petty torments and childish epithets, Avra begins to recognize something familiar in Kieran’s lingering, threatened gaze. What if he is cruel not only because he fears her queerness, her outness, but because he also secretly covets it for himself? Mutual fascination grows into obsession, eventually binding Avra and Kieran in a match both perilous and revelatory.