This book is 15 years old and it really shows. It shows in the terms Luna uses for herself, the standards of care then in effect, and in the way the story is told. Today we'd see most if not all chapters narrated by Luna. But in this novel her sister tells the story, including lots of self-pity about how difficult it is to be a trans girl's sister. The secondary plot involves the narrator's romance with a guy who Heroically Doesn't Bail When He Finds Out.

And she keeps deadnaming her sister. Even after Luna

Spoiler

flies to the West Coast to begin her new life

, the narrator still keeps deadnaming her. On the last page of the book she deadnames her.

If you're going to read this, read it like you would [b:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|2956|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1546096879s/2956.jpg|1835605]: with a large grain of salt for the language they toss around casually, and keeping in mind that things used to be a lot worse for trans kids.