This was at times a hard book for me to read, and I wasn’t expecting that. At thirty-six, I feel comfortably removed from the vicissitudes of young adulthood. I thought I had put to bed the thorny doubts and dissatisfactions with which Sasha wrestles. Yet L.V. Peñalba presents some of the struggles of aroace people in such a raw, unflinching way that is so painfully relatable. My heart. I received an eARC from NetGalley and…