CALL ME BY YOUR NAME by Andre Aciman

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME by Andre Aciman **** - Based in the Italian Riviera in the 1980s, Call Me By Your Name follows the yearning love of adolescent Elio for his parent’s summer guest, 24-year-old Oliver. Inexperienced in love and unprepared for the reality of his attraction, Elio deals with the consequences of a restless infatuation, and eventually a burning passion for Oliver. What grows between these two during their short romance is intensely intimate and absolutely unforgettable.

This book left me on my knees. This book had me crawling into my boyfriend’s lap with tears in my eyes and a pit in my stomach. This book had me daydreaming about the Italian Riviera. This book had me feeling hot and bothered more than a few times. This book taught me more than I thought I needed to know about an adolescent boy’s sexual fantasies. I was impressed by this novel. The prose was more poetic than any other novel I’d read this year (or last year). I could picture this one like a movie (and I wanted to wait as long as possible after reading this before watching the actual movie, just to postpone the inevitable replacement of mental images - although I only lasted a few hours). The diary-esque story-telling, the vulnerable and unashamed sexuality (gay!! we love it), and the slow-build were all intimate and real. What’s not to love!