Absolutely precious ❤ ( )

This is the first volume where the chapters felt frustratingly short -- most are four or five pages, but there were a few of only two or three pages. Mom barely had time to form a coherent thought about her son, and several of them were sort of weak.

There was a weirdly meta moment where the mom questions the morality of a show that speculates whether a certain person might be gay . . . in a book where the mother spends every page wondering if her son is gay and effectively invites the audience to join in.

Throughout the volume an overarching story is told in tiny increments about a complication in the relationship between the woman's son and the boy she suspects is his crush.

Throw in dad's ongoing homophobia, and this volume is less cute and amusing than previous ones though still engaging enough for a thumbs up. ( )