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This memoir was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I thought some of his writing on a sentence level was really great but the unchronological and disconnected vignette style got a little repetitive about half way through, and I think that's because a lot of the chapters are rehashing truly terrible homophobic shit that happened to them (tbh, that stuff was hard to read as a queer person!) but without any introspection or value added to what was otherwise a retelling of a horrible event. Because there (deliberately) isn't an overall narrative arc, I think the individual pieces needed something to elevate and add significance to them, and more often than not they didn't have that.

The strongest vignettes are about Page's childhood and youth, I suspect because he has enough distance and ability to reflect on them, which he might not have on his life in his 20s and 30s. I loved the details of Halifax and Nova Scotia and how he brought in some history like the Halifax explosion. Page's audiobook narration was also fantastic. I'm glad we have this book, but I can't help but feel Elliot Page wrote it a bit before he was ready. There's a small amount of joy near the end after they come out as trans and I wish the book had more of that!