A fascinating work of art filled with incredible insights into a trans person’s experience, without depicting the transition period (which the author says is a cisnormative concept of how trans people experience it, because it’s not about a switch from one gender to another (because there are more than two; gender is a spectrum)— trans is an identity in itself, full of its own unique experiences and feelings, depicted so honestly in this novel). 
It’s funny and gloomy and insightful and makes you think. Read the new version with the afterword. 

This is really engaging and reflective! I'd definitely recommend it to people who liked Detransition, Baby. I wasn't ready for it to end, especially because my copy had an afterword, so it felt very sudden. But I really appreciated the afterword as well for some context from the author after some time had passed since she wrote it.

This is not a book about trans joy.

This book made me both like and dislike it at the same time. It was very easy to read, I appreciated the short chapters propelling me through but also as a trans person who is a number of years into their "transition", I found that this book stayed stuck in the trials of being trans. For our MC here to have been living as trans for 10 years, I'd expect that their day to day would consist less of the ruminations of what living as trans are and more of just... living. My life now is must less absorbed by gender related emotions and I guess I expected that to be mirrored in this seasoned trans character.

However having now finished this book and having read the afterword by Imogen Binnie, I feel like my perspective on the narrative has altered and I encourage you to continue on and read the afterword as well.

I didn't like the characters in this novel, but I don't think that liking them was at all the point so this is not to say that this is a bad book -- it isn't. This book was good at being what it is and it does broach some important subjects and often speaks the truth about what living as a trans person can be like... But I did expect a road trip of trans joy and discovery and that's not what this was.