If Griffin is to get a better handle on his unwelcome urges and find a way to honor the life he had with Theo, then he may just have to put his resentment toward Jackson aside. After their relationship crumbled under the looming threat of long-distance dating, Theo started to pick up the pieces and began seeing Jackson, a well-spoken introvert who shoulders his own family struggles. But Griffin isn’t the only one shattered by Theo’s sudden death. All that changes in a flash when Theo drowns in the ocean after moving to California to start college.
Griffin has dozens upon dozens of special moments he shares with his boyfriend, Theo. – Adam Silvera, History is All You Left MeĪ puzzle of Pompeii. Your death made us each piece in this awkward puzzle that doesn’t completely come together, but it’s enough to make out the image: two boys in love with someone who is never coming back. There’s just one problem: Griffin betrayed Theo in his own way, too. Even so, he holds fast to the hope that Jackson can help him to memorialize Theo’s legacy. Living with ticks and hyperawareness leaves Griffin constantly questioning his own sanity and worth. Plus, his friend Wade is grieving on his own timeline. To make matters worse, Griffin’s OCD compulsions are going haywire. History is All You Left Me centers on Griffin, who is torn between a past where he’s in love with his first boyfriend, Theo, and a present in which Theo drowned while swimming with his new boyfriend, Jackson. In his sophomore book, Adam Silvera examines grief and loss with devastating scrutiny.
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