The weirdness of this book is beyond desciption. I had vague memories of reading it as a young teenager and completely not getting it. I reread it when I was somewhat older and realized that, while I had, in fact, missed some of the weirder gender-dynamic elements, my inability to figure out what was going on had nothing to do with age and everything to do with this incresibly confusing and, despite everything, oddly compelling (in the Kevin Sonney sense of the term) text. I kinda want to read it again and see if it makes more sense this time around.