This is a weird book that really doesn't offer much beyond depicting queerness. For the sake of queerness, if nothing else though, one wishes the book was just better? To start with, it does not really have a plot? Most things do not happen but actually are told one character to another. Including retold stories that feel really out of place like siblings who seem to have reasonably good relationships telling each other their coming out stories as though they were reporting them to strangers. The voice of the two narrators (Greta and Valdin) are very hard to distinguish which makes one further wonder why there were introduced. Lastly, the understanding of love (the key driver for the characters' actions) is really quite bizarre. Like when two people who previously in a relationship, but one fucked off to the other side of the world following the other's mental breakdwon (because they worry they contributed to it?), do not communicate for months, but then meet up when work brings one to the city where the other lives, and close to immediately afterwards become engaged and want to raise an adopted child together. What?