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Falling Sideways: The Geometry of Us
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
El and Leo have spent their whole lives a little off-balance.
Best friends since childhood, they exist in a space that doesn't have a name-not quite friendship, not quite love. They lean into each other quietly, carefully, afraid that if they define what they are, everything might collapse.
Then El finds a hidden box in Leo's basement.
Letters. Photographs. A family history of secret loves and unspoken truths. The past reveals a painful pattern: men in Leo's family who were too afraid to choose happiness-and paid the price for it. Suddenly, Leo's silence isn't just hesitation. It's fear.
As the pressure to pick a side grows-friends, school events, and the expectation to be normal-El tries to stand on level ground by walking away. But life without Leo's quiet gravity feels hollow. When a late-night crisis forces buried truths into the open, both of them must decide whether staying unresolved is safer... or lonelier.
Falling Sideways is a tender, atmospheric YA novel about emotional closeness, inherited fear, and the courage it takes to love without certainty. It's about learning that you don't need a straight path, a perfect label, or solid ground-just someone willing to fall at the same speed as you.
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