Tag: it just is a bummer when you admire someone and then you read something they wrote that makes you suspect they’d despise you in real life

Y’all, I love Mariko Tamaki. If I were in charge of the universe, I’d request that Mariko Tamaki subsequently do like romance authors and write one book for each of the notable minor characters in Saving Montgomery Sole.1 Saving Montgomery Sole is about a girl with two moms who struggles to fit in to her glossy, carb-hating California high school; and then a Jerry Falwell-type preacher comes to town, and Montgomery is certain that her family will be a target for his hostility. Mariko Tamaki hated high school and has said in interviews that she always struggled to fit in. In…