FINALLY FITZ

Ava “Fitz” Fitzgerald is in love with her perfect girl.

Fitz has had a crush on Danica Martinez for forever, and over the past six months, she’s tried to be the perfect girlfriend to her. Now, all Fitz has to do is tell Dani that she loves her. The location is perfect, the time is right, but when the moment comes, it’s a monumental failure. Fitz is completely shocked by Dani’s angry accusations, and she spirals into despair, which leads her to take a sudden hiatus from her popular Instagram fashion account, If the Shoe Fitz. A stressed-out Fitz subsequently bombs her first assignment at her prestigious summer program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, possibly ruining her future career prospects. She seeks solace from her sisters but, as the youngest, often feels left out. When Levi Berkowitz, Fitz’s long-lost childhood best friend, recognizes her on the subway and then again at Pride in a coincidental re-meet-cute, Fitz hatches a fake-dating plan to make their exes jealous and in the process help him win back his girlfriend and reunite with Dani. This tangled romance filled with convenient plot points follows Fitz as she navigates various relationships in her life. While her egocentric personality is at times difficult to empathize with, her earnest growth into a more self-aware and compassionate person is ultimately fun to follow. Levi and Fitz are Jewish, bisexual, and white.

An entertaining queer New York love story.