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David Levithan: Hold Me Closer (2015)

It’s Tiny Cooper’s turn in the spotlight in this companion novel to New York Times …

"This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else. That way, you can get your enchanted evening your seasons of love, your tale as old as time, your Camembert, your edelweiss. The thing is, in musicals there's not a whole lot of looking (except in the case of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.) In musicals, things happen that throw you into love, whether it's gang warfare on the West Side, or a Nazi invasion, or needing a neighbor to light your candle. Real life doesn't provide quite so many openings. No, in real life, you've got to work a little harder to get to love. I was willing to do the work. I was willing to look high and low for the perfect harmony."