I honestly thought that this was a memoir with all of the chapters feeling like the main character was retelling and reliving huge moments in her life only to find out that I got it wrong and it is fiction. Which I’m still processing because there are some seriously heavy topics that this book covers in a very real and lived experience way. I’m also not sure what I was expecting out of this book. I went in knowing it was a queer story set in South Africa and was ready to read and learn about what life is like for someone queer in South Africa but oh man, it was just a little too heavy for me.