Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are talking about the book Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble, which is a book about a man (Paris) with generalized anxiety disorder (diagnosed late in the book) who is taking part in a baking competition and meets Tariq Hassan. It's a fun book, but not one of my favorites. I enjoy the characters and definitely feel for Paris, but it's not a book I'm returning to over and over again.

We start by talking about the structure of the book before getting into the story. I also spend some time talking about how Tariq did (and did not) handle Paris' anxiety well over the course of the book. This book is part of a series, but each book seems to be a standalone book and I haven't read any others, so I can't tell you anything about them.

We will be back on October 30th when we will talk about the movie Beautiful Thing.

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