A year ago Valdin’s boyfriend dumped him and moved to Buenos Aires from Auckland. But everything’s fine. Sharing a flat with his sister Greta, who’s in love with a fellow grad student who keeps on leaving the crush unrequited, Greta discovers love with another other women. Their family  continues to grow in further crises in their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian family. 

I cannot describe this book in any capacity other than READ IT! It’s fun, it’s hilarious, it’s full of heart and family and queerness and I just adore it! One review described it as a mix between Schitt’s Creek and Sally Rooney and I think that’s honestly the best description?? It’s a literary fiction through and through, with family eccentrics who just show nothing but love. It greatly reminded me initially of Cleopatra and Frankenstein a bit? Anyways. I saw this around when it was initially published in 2021 before being bought out AGAIN by a bigger publisher and HOW IS THIS NOT EVERYWHERE??!! This will easily go down as one of my favourite books and I hope to learn that Reilly has many more books for me to adore!