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Coming September 16, 2025

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2002. Seventeen-year-old, Cheeto-stained Asher is at his breaking point. A brutal locker room brawl and a sick black eye push him over the edge. Luke’s reign as Palm Reef Prep’s Abercrombie-clad frat-boy fascist needs to end, especially with Sam, Asher’s vicious, push-up-bra’d lust bunny, at Luke’s side. So Asher does something totally deranged: he comes out as gay to get Luke expelled.

It's a full-on Hail Mary meltdown—and somehow, it works. Suddenly a hot commodity, Asher gets tangled up with his tragic, Austin Powers-quoting best friend, Robbie, and scores VIP access to South Florida’s club scene with Ethan, an actual gay kid. All vodka Red Bulls, rainbow flags, and McDonald’s parking lot soul-gushing. Until it’s not.

Night swims get sketchy, dancefloor staredowns get dark, and grinding with Sam gets way too real. Nothing makes sense and he’s crumbling like an old Oreo. The line between real and bullshit has officially disappeared, and Asher’s one slip away from total nuclear destruction.

Asher Diamond is Definitely Gay is a YA crossover novel for anyone who’s ever been humiliated by a teenager. It’s got the juicy drama of Degrassi, the sad-boy spiral of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and the hater energy of Daria: totally awkward, hilariously unhinged, and painfully honest. A millennial fever dream for fans of weird, queer, voicey fiction who love dark comedy. Perfect for readers who don't mind spending time in the brain of a straight boy—and know the truest boy-meets-boy stories are still waiting to be told.

Andrew Extein is a psychotherapist and writer in Los Angeles. Asher Diamond is Definitely Gay is his first novel.

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