Breathtaking story. Chu breathes life into these characters so immediately as to seem effortless, and the premise of the water that falls when you lie is a brilliant marriage with this otherwise so real to our world story.

My heaaaart. This novella took me a while to get into, I found the sentences confusing and didn't grasp the way the world worked at all. Eventually though I fell into the swing of reading it, and enough of the world was explained that I felt comfortable and became invested in the story. (At that point I reread the first couple chapters and found them much easier to understand. It's quite possible my earlier struggle is largely owing to starting the reading of it in a distracting environment.) I loved the protagonist of this story, and his journey left me pretty emotionally devastated. I look forward to reading further work Wilson has done in this setting, but what I really want is more Demane.

This novella was such a delight to read. Wilson masterfully weaves a story across days and years that just never stopped pulling on my heart strings. It was wonderful to return to the setting of The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, and learn more about this captivating world, while being immersed in a story about these great characters. Wilson does really interesting stuff with the world's definition of men's work vs women's work. I want so much more in this world, but I feel completely satisfied by the arc of this story - despite and because of all the feels. I'm so impressed by Kai Ashante Wilson. Highly recommend.

This book got me interested with it's blend of a teen discovering his sexuality with the speculative fiction aspect of memory alteration. At first I was skeptical of the narrator's style of explaining things, but I soon became too immersed in the story to notice it. It was an intense book, and you probably shouldn't read it when you're feeling fragile because it's dark and I cried a lot, but it was powerful and will stick with you.

I really enjoyed reading this book and delighted in its premise and execution. Not totally sure about the ending, but I'm definitely going to be thinking about this one for a while.

Beautifully written, thought provoking, heartbreaking, and eye opening. I think I need to read this book again to absorb it better, but the experience of reading it was full of thoughts and feelings and I would recommend it highly.

Heartbreaking and profound and beautifully told, For Today I Am a Boy is about identity and about family and the complicated mix of feelings that make up a human existence. Straightforwardly told with an honesty that reminded me of memoir but with a fine art sense of creative liberties - in that there was no fight to include *every* detail as an author may feel pressured towards in telling their own story. The story rang very true to me, although I hesitate to make that judgement as someone whose life experience doesn't touch much of the struggle of being trans or of growing up a minority in a small town or in an immigrant household.

This book was amazing. So enjoyable to read, and important as a narrative mainstream media too often overlooks. Mock tells her life story as a young poor trans woman of color with an attention to detail that gives her memoir a fiction-like flow with none of the dryness I typically fear from nonfiction. She is careful to highlight that her story is not meant to be read as *the* trans story, and she often expounds on privileges or disadvantages she had and how those factors lead her through her own path. She seamlessly weaves in these teaching moments with her story, treating complex issues with care and compassion throughout.

Yep. So, of course I knew I would agree with this book and enjoy reading it, but Adichie surprised me with an even more delightful experience than I'd expected. She infuses this explanation of feminism and the problem of gender in both American and African societies with so much of her personality and amusing and insightful anecdotes.

MariNaomi has done it again. I love her honesty , vulnerability, and attention to the details that make up humanity.