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Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
4.5
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

A stunning and quintessential example of the graphic memoir genre. I’m impressed by Kobabe’s ability to explore complicated and messy emotions surrounding identity and sexuality in ways that feel deeply relatable and truthful even to those that haven’t experienced precisely the same thing. 

My only quibble with this is simply in how abrupt the ending felt. I was looking for more closure, but that’s also a personal struggle I have with the majority of memoirs.