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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is Kelly's Secretly Kind of Races?

I want to ask a little bit about kelly, who is amira's boy friend and alex's ex boy friend. He's such the interesting figure in this book because he stay's really opaque. And it's almost like this mystery we're invited to solve of like, oh, is kelly's secretly kind of races? So how did you think about playing with that question and with the opacity of that character as the book goes on? For kelly, it was most important that the reader is dating him with a merean those early dating periods are full of those.

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