The queer tomboy experience of growing up on a farm in the country was very relatable to me personally, and I enjoyed the author recounting these parts of her life. I wasn’t a big fan of the writing style sometimes because she jumped around a lot with random dates which felt disorienting, as well as repeating the same stories multiple times. I was often frustrated by the conversational style of writing and talking to me as the reader as if we knew one another by saying “but that’s a story for another time” multiple times and then never returning to those stories to explain further. The author repeatedly talks about how she wanted to be a boy as a child, but then she says that in another life she would have grown up to be a “carny, transgender…” and other things in a derogatory way, which I wasn’t too keen on. I think the author needs to unpack her views on transness instead of depicting it as a negative thing she could have been if she’d stayed in the country. I also found the fictional prologue of her burning down her restaurant to be a little unnecessary.