It all starts innocently enough with Tash first bringing up her her crush Thom to her other best friend Paul (who is also Jack’s brother), who then asks if Thom is hot or not. The way Tash’s asexuality was introduced to the story naturally.The full breakdown of my thoughts is as follows: My conclusion regarding the portrayal of Tash’s asexuality is that the book did a lot of things right, a couple things not right, and one thing that really ticked me off.
I especially enjoyed all the parts involving Unhappy Families and interfacing with fans and the Internet as content creators. Tash Hearts Tolstoy is an entertaining read overall.
Tash has the opportunity to meet him in person, thanks to the upcoming Golden Tuba web series awards, but now she’s facing the prospect of spending time with her crush in meatspace and feeling the pressure of whether to tell Thom she’s asexual. Tash has also struck up an online friendship with Thom, a fellow vlogger, and soon they’re emailing and texting and bantering and flirting. )Ī quick summary: Tash is an aspiring film director who, along with her best friend Jack, is producing a web series adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina titled Unhappy Families, which has just gone viral thanks to a famous vlogger giving it a shout-out. I also don’t care that much whether it is or not, because Every Heart a Doorway was #ownvoices, and, well, see above. (Side note: I have no clue whether Tash Hearts Tolstoy is #ownvoices. As an ace-spectrum/gray-ace person, I was curious to see how Tash’s asexuality would be portrayed, especially since the last book I read with an ace protagonist, Every Heart a Doorway, had people praising it ad infinitum for its representation of asexuality when, in reality, it sucked. The book is, to my knowledge, the first YA novel published by Big Five imprint to feature an explicitly asexual protagonist. I first read Tash Hearts Tolstoy last August.
I had meant to have this this piece up waaaaay earlier.
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