Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

i liked this book. i didn't like it as much as the first one, but it was still beautiful in discovering what love and friendship meant and how those two things are inherently intertwined. i liked the exploration of loss and grief and isolation, and how we feel as though we will never belong. CONS: someone once said that the conversations were unrealistic, and now i cannot unsee that. is it so hard to have an informal conversation? also, i almost felt as if there was bi-erasure in this book; i feel like ari was meant to be bisexual. now i know gay men can describe/love women without romantically loving women, but here's my quota: ari was sexually attracted to men and romantically attracted to women. i think the way he described people like mrs q and cassandra, he described them in a way where it made it seem like he had a crush on them. he 100% mrs q was a milf???? like ok, i get it, gay men