We Used to Be Friends

This funny, honest, and realistic novel explores the most traumatic breakup many people ever go through?that of the friendship between childhood besties. In dual timelines, James (a girl with a boy's name) prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the past year and the dissolution of her relationship with Kat, while in alternating chapters, Kat is newly in love with her first girlfriend and feeling like her future is wide open.