Call Me By Your Name


-Andre Acimen
Farrar Straus & Geroux publication



I was drawn to "Call me by your name" first by Sufjan Stevens and then by Timothee Chalamet, back in December. There was nothing not to love about the movie. When Elio cried, I cried with him. I got my hands in the book much later- now.



There's this raw desire described by Acimen throughout the book that I could never find in any other romance (I gave up on this genre quite early). I can neither remember any other book that could incite a longing for the male body as much as this book succeeded in doing effortlessly.



This story is complete in every sense. Elio, a 17 years old boy, discovers his bisexuality, trysts with the norms society expects from him and then discovers the happiness of a lifetime in the brief period of time that he spends with Oliver, being his. He is supported by his father and the landscapes of Italy. There's a longing in the first part of the novel for the mysterious Oliver, which resolves beautifully as the pages turn. There are no what-ifs, no question of morality rising, after all, societal rules are what we want them to be.



 Call Me By Your Name is a song. Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine. This is an adventure, only to be ventured by the pure in heart. Even as I write this with Sufjan's music echoing through my earphones, I'm wondering why this book isn't a cult and took so long to reach me. It's easy to dismiss bisexuality but not the feelings this book is dripping with. This is a friendship society deprives us of. This is love.


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