This book got me all in my teen baby gay feels! I adore Margo and Abbie SO MUCH! I truly felt like I was experiencing it all through their perspectives. Living the story right alongside them. Feeling all the angst and worry and gay panic and first crush jitters and everything in between! Also…yay for neurodivergent representation! And Jewish representation! And bisexual representation! I love it!

And Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl was everything I hoped it would be and more! As Bri and Sara wrote in the author’s note at the beginning, this story is “ an exploration of identity, friendship, and countercultural norms.”

Margo and Abbie are two girls who could not be more different, other than the fact that they are both on the swim team. They aren’t friends. They don’t hang in the same circles of people. Margo Zimmerman is popular and smart and super femme…and surprise! She might be a lesbian. Margo is autistic and doesn’t do anything without first knowing everything there is to know about it. Her hesitation in coming out never has an ounce of internalized homophobia in it, which I love. She just wants to make sure she knows how to probably be gay and do all the gay things before she has her big gay reveal.