I Wish You All the Best

Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary and is thrown out of the house that same day. With nowhere else to go, Ben moves in with their older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas. Ben and Hannah are estranged, and Ben has never met Thomas.

Ben lives with an anxiety disorder, and the rejection at home makes it harder to manage. In the new house, only Hannah, Thomas and Ben's therapist know that Ben is nonbinary. At the new school, the plan is to keep a low profile and get through the second half of senior year without being noticed.

That plan runs into Nathan Allan, a funny, charismatic student who decides to befriend Ben. As the two spend time together, the friendship shifts into something closer to romance, and Ben has to decide how much of themselves to share.

The young adult contemporary story moves between painful scenes of rejection and anxiety and lighter ones of friendship and first love. The question it turns on is whether a bad start can lead somewhere better for Ben.