Dawn

This book read me

Revisado: 11-24-22

And I’m pissed about it. Like., even bringing up fictionmania?! You kidding me? This one hurt me so so much to read, but the afterward gave me so much closure.

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So many tears

Revisado: 04-03-22

This dysphoria tastes like mine. It’s from such a wonderfully true place it hurts and I recommend it to everyone.

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The Hottest Book Ever Written

Revisado: 06-28-19

I've only dinged it a little because this book just sort of ends. No spoilers, but I wasn't very satisfied. The sex and heartbreak. Oh my god! I needed this book and it had its way with me.

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It just doesn't work

Revisado: 01-29-19

I would not recommend this story to any person trying to understand what it is like growing up trans. It voices a lot of the fears of what it is like, but only through the narrator and not the actual trans character. Luna is all about fashion and makeup and that seems to be it. That's what being a girl is to her. I found it a bit insulting.

I could be wrong and this whole story is based on true experiences, but I can't see any of these characters behaving this way. The trans girl is self-involved and obsessive. I understand there is a period around transitioning that is selfish, but in my experience it is that way because of all of the insecurity and anxiety and not to do with a complete personality shift and denial of reality. At one point her sister is sobbing and Luna asks to go shopping. Girls be shopping, right? Also she is a savant for some reason.

The sister is written as very adult and wise, but also as immature and dumb. It seems her character changes to fit the story instead of the other way around. The dad seems relatively grounded in reality, but the mother is just a sociopath. I don't mind an antagonist, but the motivations for the mother are nonsensical. Either she's an extreme narcissist or a weird caricature. It doesn't much matter either way, because she's almost a non-entity in the story, which being a story about a family is bizarre.

I may have missed the exact year, but it feels this is set during the same years I was a kid. Cellphones and pagers coexist. America West Airlines was a thing. I was in the closet in high school in the early 2000s. I figured this book would likely reflect my experience at least a bit, but its wildly off the mark. Also, and this is a small thing, but why do the characters go to a Blockbuster to buy cds at the mall? I'm assuming they meant a Sam Goody.

I can't go into one of the worst and most offensive moments in this book without spoilers, but I sided with the people furious at Luna and not the actual trans girl. I am wired in every way to want to root for Luna and still, I never could. I do not and will not speak for all trans people. However, I will say that I, a trans woman, found this book woefully wrong about what being trans is to me.

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