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steveatwaywords's review against another edition
5.0
This book is not easily navigable. While written in fragmentary pieces, the narrative is delivered in its entirety, a submersion of its whole, and one wonders at its turnings. Nelson writes while on a subway, at a cafe, surrounded by tumult, but what she offers is insular and contained, a cerebral dissection of her own life and how words, language, people shift. Derrida remarked that he wondered most about the sex lives of philosophers. Nelson has here made a powerful bridge (more a marriage) between the abstraction of teleology and the workings of body.
Graphic: Sexual content and Death of parent
Moderate: Stalking, Grief, Medical content, and Cancer
Minor: Biphobia, Transphobia, and Murder
maess's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Grief, Homophobia, Sexism, Stalking, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual content, Abortion, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Vomit, Outing, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy
pang's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Sexual content
Moderate: Stalking and Grief
Minor: Transphobia
garynoplastie's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Stalking, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Deadnaming, and Infertility
Minor: Alcoholism
suspicious_salmon's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy
Moderate: Dysphoria, Medical content, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, and Infertility
Minor: Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Grief, Deadnaming, Addiction, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Terminal illness
dylan2219's review against another edition
4.0
Two things I took away particularly:
Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Death of parent
Moderate: Grief, Dysphoria, Medical content, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Incest and Alcoholism
cryptidcas's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexism, Stalking, and Transphobia
Minor: Abortion
libbyhb's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy
Moderate: Grief
tabitha_isabelle's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, Stalking, and Vomit
cheye13's review against another edition
4.0
While this is a book I think straights should read, I find myself reluctant to recommend it to anyone not queer, and the text itself explains why: "...the butch characters would call each other 'he' and 'him,' but in the outer world of grocery stores and authority figures, people would call them "she" and "her." The point wasn't that if the outer world were schooled appropriately re: the characters' preferred pronouns, everything would be right as rain. Because if the outsiders called the characters "he," it would be a different kind of he" (pg 8).
Graphic: Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Grief, Terminal illness, and Stalking
Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Transphobia
There is brief discussion of child sexual abuse/assault scenes in literature.