I cannot enjoy how the narration is unmoored in time and is clearly leading to a character being a trans women... And yet it insists on calling the character what they were assigned at birth. I would understand doing so if the narration was a first person or linearly moored narrative... But since it isn't it just feels disrespectful. 

Looking up the author I had thought perhaps they were trans and so I could trust that the narrative would correct and maybe critic itself... But finding the author is the mother of a trans person who wrote the book while discovering her daughter is trans... I feel like perhaps this book is packed with intense feeling and emotion, but not necessarily the kind of focus and sensitivity I would hope for. I get it's hard for parents to deal with a fundamental shift in how they view their children... But I care more for the feelings of trans people then those around them. So despite this book being emotive and perhaps well written... I don't think it is a book for me.