I've never been a big reader of biographies; it's fiction that has always turned me inside out, held up the mirror and made me look long and hard at myself and the world. I never expected to find that sliver of kinship-feeling in this kind of a work. Julie Phillips is masterful in her exploration of Sheldon/Tiptree's life; she's helped make sharply tangible the shapes I'd felt under Tiptree's prose when I first read it. One of the best things I've read in the past few years.