Blog Tour Spotlight: Right Beside You by Tucker Shaw

Hi friends, as part of the blog tour hosted by TBR & Beyond Tours I’m shining a spotlight on a new YA queer contemporary: Right Beside You by Tucker Shaw.

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Right Beside You
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication Date: 29 April 2025
Genre: YA Queer Contemporary
Rep: Queer, LGBTQIA+, Chronic illness

๐Ÿ“– SYNOPSIS

In this fresh, speculative blend of queer romance and coming-of-age, Eddie meets Theo in present-day New York and Francis in a New York of the pastโ€ฆ torn between eras and his heart, he must make a decision that will change his life forever.

High school has just ended and Eddie is at a loss for whatโ€™s next. He had a falling out with his best friend, and he never really related to the rest of his peers in the sleepy Colorado town he calls home. The future is bleak.

Until his ancient and eccentric great aunt Cookie asks him to care for her in New York City as she recuperates from an illness. Eddie leaps at the opportunity. Soon after he arrives at her tiny Greenwich Village apartment, homebound Cookie asks Eddie to use her vintage polaroid camera to snap pictures of her favorite places she can no longer visit. But somethingโ€™s unusual about this camera. When he takes a photo, heโ€™s launched back in time to an entirely different New York of the early 20th century.

As Eddie explores the underground queer life of the Roaring 20, he discovers new undercurrents of his own identity. Not to mention a dangerously handsome boy in scuffed boots and tattered stovepipe trousers who keeps popping up in his visions of the past.

But when Eddie begins to develop a crush on the mercurial Francis, a cute baker named Theo enters the pictureโ€”and heโ€™s in the present. Caught between timelines and feelings, Eddie must make a decision about what heโ€™s willing to his romantic fantasies of the past or a reality that might just be what heโ€™s wanted all along.

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Tucker Shawโ€™s novel, WHEN YOU CALL MY NAME, follows two gay teenagers during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City in 1990. In hard times, nothing is more powerful than friendship.

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