I wish I could give this book more stars. It's stunning. Intense, visceral. Especially pointed if you are queer and come from a similar or parallel Black community like I do. I didn't know I could feel affirmed by a book while it stomped unapologetically all over my feelings. The writing is amazing. It's a beautiful, queer, tragic jigsaw forming a picture you need to see and want to see but are also frightened of because you know it's going to be painful in its beauty.