5/22/2023 0 Comments History is all that you left meIt begins with the day Theo died and switches chapters into the day Theo and Griffin first started their relationship. The novel alternates which Griffin we’re hearing from. Jackson makes it to New York for his funeral where he has to face Griffin and Theo’s past. Theo and Jackson become closer and Griffin is forced to accept this because he knows Theo is happy, but then Theo drowns. Not wanting to do the long-distance thing, they break up, but to Griffin’s surprise Theo is able to move on a few months later with Jackson. Griffin and Theo are separated at first by Santa Monica College, where Theo gets accepted for early admission. Then we have sixteen-year-old Griffin from 2014, who has just begun to date Theo. As if grieving wasn’t hard enough, Griffin also has OCD, something that he struggles with often throughout the story. He’s an eighteen-year-old kid living in New York who was in love with his best friend and ex-boyfriend, Theo, and is now mourning his loss. To better understand the concept of the novel, you’ll need to know more about Griffin. This is not a simple Romeo and Juliet tragedy, folks. Grieving his loss, he finds that the only person who could possibly understand turns out to be Theo’s final boyfriend, Jackson. The story follows Griffin, whose very complicated ex-boyfriend, Theo, drowned and broke the biggest promise he ever made to him - don’t die.
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