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James Frankie Thomas’s debut novel, Idlewild , hit shelves this week .
The book follows two best friends, Fay and Nell , who are both theater kids.
Thomas's research involved rereading both his old diary and the “incredibly detailed blog” he kept junior and senior years.
Idlewild became a whydunit—a story about how their bond eventually breaks.
The idea, he says, owes a debt to his all-time favorite novel, The Secret History .
He didn’t begin his own transition until after he finished the first draft of Idlewild .
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