This novel is told in verse, which was a surprise to me when I opened up the cover. Some of the poems are written by the main character, Michael, but most narrate his life from a first person point of view. Michael is born in London to a Cypriot Greek mother and a Jamaican father, who leaves Michael and his mom behind. At six years old he asks his mother for a Barbie, and in elementary school all his friends are girls. He comes out as gay in high school by asking a fellow male drama student out, and he is rejected, but kindly. The second half of the book takes place entirely during Mike's first year at university, where he joins the Drag club, makes his first Black friend, has sex for the first time. Drag and performance give him a space to full explore, for the first time, the full aspects of his identity- mixed race, black and queer, writer and performer, unseen and seen.