An incredibly moving meditation on the meaning of transness, coping mechanisms, social responsibility, queer temporality, and the normative scripts we use to navigate the world.

Elements of this book are equal parts hard to look at, hard to look away from, and demand to be seen, understood, reinterpreted, and reunderstood. Casey Plett understands exactly what she is trying to say about the world, what experiences she's trying to share, and communicates it perfectly in a layered and intricate character-driven story that is, at times uncomfortable, yet tremendously eye-opening.