I started reading this book on a whim because it was brought to my attention when skimming through the digital collection of my library--I think in an unlimited copies type of promotion. I'm really glad I decided to read it.

Yet I find it hard to put into words what exactly I'm feeling about this novel. I think the fact that I was reading it at the same time as I was reading transgender nonfiction and the fact that, by virtue of the fact that the book is autofiction, the author herself feels more viscerally present then maybe the case in other types of novels.

The difficulties of trans life and the joys are mixed together with a dystopian future that isn't so hard to imagine in the current global climate of anything (economics, politics, etc etc).

Somehow I feel as if David is breathing down my neck as I write this review. I'm shaken. This book was so powerful and I feel all the stronger for it. We all deserve to be who we are without others dictating what we need to be.