A review by twistingsnake
I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted by Jennifer Finney Boylan

5.0

one of the most incredible memoirs I've ever read. the last five pages of this book are so strong, so vulnerable, so honest in their delivery and conception that it left me with shaking hands. I've read a lot of books on the trans experience and have also lived through my own life as a non-binary queer individual but Jennifer's approach of weaving the narrative of growing up as a child in a haunted home and as a trans person growing in a haunted body made me rethink so much. It takes a special person to write a book about their life that is both tragic and hilarious, inspired but grounded, and vulnerable without oversharing. As a child I loved ghost stories because I felt like a ghost in myself, and as an adult I felt touched to see that concept so beautiful poured out into something so good that I have been thinking about it for a week straight. I cannot recommend this enough.