The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

I saw this pop up on my library's Overdrive page and I was like, “Whoaa, Lev Grossman has a new YA book? And it's a movie? And I didn't hear about it??” Wellll it's really a short story. (Or novella? Long short story or short novella?) and it's ebook only. and the movie is an Amazon Prime original. so anyway that's how I missed it.

It was cute! It reminded me of the Magicians books (my problematic favs) in that it seems like Lev Grossman thinks he needs a white boy protagonist as like a Trojan Horse to trick you into realizing that surprise: women characters can have agency and feelings too. And I would submit to Lev that actually, what if next time you just tried making a woman main character? Could you try it????

anyway....yeah, it was cute, I'll probably watch the movie at some point. I really enjoyed the author's end note about the process of writing this story and adapting it to a script and getting the movie made mostly pre-pandemic but then slightly during pandemic?