A review by caseythecanadianlesbrarian
Like a Boy But Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary by Andrea Bennett

3.0

A few of these essays, mostly the ones about pregnancy, breastfeeding, and parenthood, really spoke to me. And it's very cool to hear about these topics from a nonbinary person! Honestly the parts about anxiety and fear of death and mortality were alternately too close to home and anxiety-inducing even though those topics are not particular sites of anxiety for me. The interludes with short bios about small town queers I liked in theory, but in practice I didn't feel like there was real meaning added to the journalistic details. Actually, overall the writing in this collection felt too journalistic for my taste. A good book, but not one that necessarily fit me as a reader.