A review by caseythereader
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 📚 I keep trying to think of what a coherent review of this book would say, and all I can think is "please read this book. Oh my gosh, please read this book."
📚 I came to the realization last year that I am on the asexuality spectrum, and several passages in this book had me in tears because it was describing things I had felt or thought but had never seen anyone else express. This book is all the words I didn't have.
📚 Even if you are not asexual or aromantic, please read this book, for two reasons. One, to gain greater understanding of those who are. And two, because this book pulls apart each strand of what makes up our identities - attraction, drive, romance, etc. - and helps the reader understand how these factors are at play (or not) in their own lives, and how assuming everyone is straight/cisgender/allosexual/etc. while placing behavioral expectations on those identities hurts everyone and holds so many people back from knowing their full selves. 
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