I really hate to rate this so low as a white woman reading a black man's life story but I was honestly just so bored though the whole thing. I felt prepared for difficult stories and uncomfortable truths and I just feel like they weren't there? I can't speak to how traumatizing it would be to grow up black queer and gender non conforming but at the same time the author never told me? This book just felt like it was full of anecdotal stories about his life and never got too terribly deep. I'm so confused because there's obviously tons of reviews praising and loving this book and ita profoundness and I just don't get it at all.

The author mentions that he just hopes this book can help one person who may need it, to see themselves represented in literature and I truly hope for that as well. Maybe this story just isn't for me and that's fine.