num_pages: 416
description: From the critically acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an emotional empowering story of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all.Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. Theyre deeply hopelessly in love. When they separate for their first year at collegeToni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYUtheyre sure theyll be fine. Where other long-distance relationships have fallen apart theirs is bound to stay rock-solid.The reality of being apart though is very different than they expected. Toni who identifies as genderqueer meets a group of transgender upperclassmen and immediately finds a sense of belonging that has always been missing but Gretchen struggles to remember who she is outside their relationship.While Toni worries that Gretchen wont understand Tonis new world Gretchen begins to wonder where she fits in Toni's life. As distance and Tonis shifting gender identity begins to wear on their relationship the couple must decidehave they grown apart for good or is love enough to keep them together?
language: English
title: What We Left Behind
publisher: Harlequin Teen