itsmebee 's review for:

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery

4.0

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Incredible, lovely. It's hard to tell what in this book resonated because of Lavery's skill as a writer, and what felt like someone speaking a language I could understand. As he says in the book, "...while I dismissed relatively quickly the idea of my childhood as a source of guidance, I returned over and over again to the scriptures of my youth, to ground and locate myself in the stories of transformation that were already familiar to me. Not because I thought I needed religious permission to transition, and not because I thought Christian history was the best source of trans ontology, but because that history was mine unalterably and permanently, no matter what I decided to do with my future."

As ever, the writing is incisive, insightful, hilarious, and clever. Thank you for writing this book, it was truly a pleasure to read.