A review by psalva
People Change by Vivek Shraya

3.0

I’m a big Vivek Shraya fan, despite this being only the second book of hers I’ve read (The Subtweet was the other and it was incredible). This collection of essays is a celebration of change and reinvention. I found the discussion about labels being “choices I make for the comprehension and comfort of others,” to be an interesting reframing. There were some portions that got a bit too self-helpy for my taste, but the book as a whole gets at important questions of identity.