Call Me by Your Name - goodreads.com
It’s nearly fall, but that can't help but make me reminisce about one of my favorite summer reads of 2024.
After watching the movie Call Me By Your Name years ago and receiving many recommendations to read the book, I finally did so this summer and do not regret it.
Call Me By Your Name was exactly what I wanted from a summer read, and I loved being transported to a small summer town in Italy. The atmosphere was amazing- exploring vineyards, swimming in rivers, going biking, just ah. The book follows Elio, an academic professors' son, as his family spends a summer hosting an American exchange student. He soon becomes enamored with the new guest and as he discovers love, readers experience the slow and fast-paced emotions that come with the angst and yearning of young summer romances. The book is steamy, but somehow it also portrays the innocence of being curious and trying new things for the first time. Call Me By Your Name is a coming-of-age YA romance, and I would really recommend picking it up!
Review Editor: Laura Hood, Pellissippi Librarian
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.
The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.
Genre Tags: Fiction, LGBT, Contemporary, Coming of Age
Interested in reading Call Me By Your Name? Visit the Reference Room in the Hardin Valley Campus Library or request it for pick up at your closest campus.
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