A review by ryliereadss
Pageboy by Elliot Page

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

A very good memoir about Elliot Page’s experience with gender dysphoria, acting, relationships, and his relationship with his parents over the years. Reading about his experience always being uncomfortable in dresses and tights and the extreme anxiety it caused him was difficult to read about. There was a lot of jumping around chronologically within the chapters which made it hard to follow at times. The trans joy that Page writes about was great. Page is also really good writing about his emotions and describing the atmosphere. I would really recommend reading this!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

Page talks about his experience being groomed and assaulted in the early years of his acting career. He also talked about punishing himself by restricting his eating and that causing him to lose a lot of weight.