I loved the art and story of this graphic memoir. The world cannot be simplified down to a binary understanding. The author shares intimate details about eir body and gets deep into eir psyche figuring out eir self-identity. It is a heartfelt journey about a specific person's identity. It is a wonderful guide to pronouns and the wide array of human gender identity, if you are open to learn. This is one of the titles often targeted in recent book bans around the country. Book bans, in my mind, are about conformity and avoiding topics that are, in truth, key to understanding the full diversity of the human experience. I hope people keep reading this book. Maia's family loves er, yet still makes mistakes in mis-gendering er. Society has a long way to go in not assuming a gender, forcing a gender presentation, or threatening humans who do not fit in their binary understanding.
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