A review by fiorow
What We Left Behind by Robin Talley

1.0

I was given this book to read by a (now longtime ex) friend back when I was a teenager because it ‘reminded her of me’ during a period in my life while I was questioning my gender identity. I feel so vindicated knowing so many other people hated it. The depictions of queer people and women made me so uncomfortable I ended up recycling the book. I felt personally offended it made her think of me and after revisiting the story by reading other reviews I remember why. Just horrid genderqueer representation and other horrid characters. I specifically remember the main character neglecting to use people’s preferred pronouns as some sort of quirk since T (the character) is ‘confused’ with T’s gender identity was the last straw for me. Just awful.