A review by leweylibrary
Pageboy by Elliot Page

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4.75

I feel so bad about giving this book any less than 5 stars because it really is powerful and so important and poignant and has some really fantastic diction. But I just can't get over how confusing the timeline could get because of how this memoir was formatted. I almost think titled chapters would have helped? It was just hard to remember what was happening when and in relation to other things in the book because it jumped around in time so much.

I will say that that could be intentional because certainly navigating one's own sexuality and gender are not straight forward processes either, but it still took me out of the reading  experience a lot which impacted how I felt about the book for sure.

Otherwise, this book was fantastic. I always find memoirs like this from people in the public eye so fascinating because it goes to show how much they are experiencing life just like the rest of us despite the image we see of them everywhere. I know this doesn't mean much to him personally obviously lol, but I'm so proud and happy that he was able to get to the point where he could not only take the leap to live as his authentic self but to share a piece of his journey to that, including many not so pretty parts, with readers like myself.
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