sariandtherevolution 's review for:

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

4.5

emotional reflective medium-paced

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This book is much more than a simple narration of the transformations Maggie Nelson experiences during her pregnancy, when giving birth, and at the start of her husband's hormonal replacement therapy. What she gives us, as she calls it, is a memoir in drag: she is in drag as a mother, and she is in drag as a married person in a straight-passing queer relationship (Vice, 2018). She writes about bodies and becoming, specifically about bodies, objects, lives, and ideas being replaced bit by bit until they constitute something different. The author, thus, daringly speaks of and analyzes experiences and feelings of mergings and separations.