Call Me by Your Name

I was utterly charmed and wrecked by this book. It's an account of first love during a summer in Italy. Elio is a wise youth, Oliver is the house guest. They connect over a shared love for literature, music, the arts. There's an immediate intense bond, a push and pull ensues, mixed with the nervousness of youth, the intoxication of fear, shame, longing, the forbidden. The writing is sensual and lyrical, a beautiful love story.