Be Straight with Me

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During her sophomore year at Middlebury College, Emilymeets Max 'you'as she intimately refers to him in the book.

Not exactly a tomboy, but not quite a girly girl either, Emily is intent on finding a masculine boyfriend to assuage a deeply rooted fear that she may notbequite feminine enough. Max, who loves Maria Von Trapp and shot-gunningbeerswithhisstraightguy friends, is grieving his first great heartbreak, to a boy on the new season of MTVs The Real World.

Initially, Max and Emily dislike each other, but end up growing close after a make-out dare on Halloween. Then one night, Max reveals an unexpected physical attraction that catches them both by surprise. The experimentbegins, in secret, and then spirals into something more. Emily fears the unknown in a relationshipwithsomeone who doesnt fit her traditional idea of a masculine partner. And although Max deeply loves Emily, he cannot change the fact that he is attracted tomen.

Max and Emilys journey takes many forms they experimentwithdrugs; they travel abroad; they try sleepingwithother people (together), and everything inbetween all in the name of 'this bizarre,beautiful thing'they call love.

Author Bio

Emily Daltongrew up inruralnorthern Connecticut and studied writing at Middlebury College in Vermont. At the age of 25, after three years of living in New York City, she quit her job, moved home, and turned her focus back to writing. While working part-time as a blacksmith's apprentice, she slowly transformed her senior thesis into the first draft ofBe Straight with Me. Emily has since returned to Brooklyn, where she works in advertisingand is learning to grow bonsai trees.