Emilie Summer

I'm sure that The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray is on your list because that is about a black character with an eating disorder.

It's a little old, but it did well.

So on the off chance it's not on your radar, I would look at that.

In terms of the medical aspect of your work, the memoir, The Beauty in Breaking by Michelle Harper is about a black doctor and it covers her experience in the medical profession and

And also examines the systemic biases, the racism, the misogyny that do exist in medicine that she and we come up against.

So I think that's a possibility for the medical aspect.

But yeah, I would say The Bells for the campus part, Anissa Gray for the eating disorder, and The Beauty in Breaking by Michelle Harper for the medical aspect.

Okay, if we were doing the Emily drinking game, comps drinking game, I think anytime I suggest the people we keep or mention the people we keep, since you suggested it first, we drink.

We can just drink a Diet Coke.

It doesn't have to be an alcohol drinking game.

So to the people we keep, yes, definitely.

One of my favorites.

I thought of that one immediately.

It's probably my favorite found family, chosen family novel since Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, which is not a comp here, but truly a classic for a reason.

Also a total hoot, a pleasure to read.

For Crux, I would say, I would actually say no to Crux, if only because the two real perspectives that we get in Crux are the teens themselves.

So it's a friendship between

two two down and out struggling teenagers the adults in their lives are very much present well they're very much they're present in the text if only for the reason they are so absent in the teens lives so they loom large because of their negligence and how their issues impact these teenage characters but the story really belongs to the teenage friends

Which doesn't feel like exactly what you're describing if we've got the waitress as the first.

Although maybe if she's a teen too, that was not how I heard your voicemail.