Protagonist and narrator Eric "Bitty" Bittle, a gay college freshman, is comfortable in his skin in a way that was impossible to imagine just a few years ago. Check, Please! is very much a thing of our time in its approach to gay identity and romance. The moment it preserves is partly cultural. But its quality of suspended animation - of a moment preserved in quivering perfection - gives this comic a tension, and thus an interest, more compelling than its happy-go-lucky façade suggests. Its story of a college hockey team isn't particularly gripping or dramatic, though there are many flashes of joy. Ngozi Ukazu's comic levitates and drifts insouciantly, belying the massive forces of temperature and pressure that must be held in balance for it to exist. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Check, Please! Author Ngozi Ukazu
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