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kenley11's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Transphobia, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Murder and War
Minor: Child abuse, Grief, Infidelity, and Suicide attempt
sandreline's review
4.0
Content warning: threat of medical abuse of a gender-nonconforming person.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry
silvae's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical trauma, Racism, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Child abuse
astridrv's review against another edition
mysterious
reflective
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
A mysterious tale which raises more questions than it provides answers. The voice of a child that acutely observes the world; they see adults up close, far closer and truer than this gallery of characters would like, and they see themselves from afar, at a distance from the body that happens to carry their thoughts and hinder their expression. I am left haunted and provoked, thinking about identity and memory (What indeed is left if we admitted we shouldn't even have a name?) but also community and society (How to connect this book with Le Guin's Omelas, cited as epitaph?). I had expected a different ending but this short book might stay with me for a while. Oh, and it is incredibly well written, precise, chiseled, elegant and fresh.
Content Warnings
Minor: Hate crime, Medical trauma, and Racism
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