My Heartbeat
Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. “When you grow out of it,” James teases her, “you will break my heart.” Then someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other. My Heartbeat is a fast, furious story in which a quirky triangle learns to change its shape and Ellen, at least, learns the limits of what you can ever know about whom you love.
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Published as a Young Adult book — but most of my mail came from gay men in their 30s. I think it was because the novel depicts the world where gay people live without religious judgment. That is the world I grew up in.
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So there is the original book, published in 2002 with the Keith Haring cover and then the 10 year anniversary edition with a different cover, but with an introduction by the elegant Michael Cart. The 10th Anniversary enhanced ebook edition of the Pritz Award Honor YA novel means the book has had two lives.