What are your thoughts on the use of magical surrealism to explore personal and social constructions of gender identity?
The women in the book form a delicate, but necessary, community. What does this look like in your world?
Violence and danger are major themes. How did you process their literary tool as a reflection of trans* reality?
The narrator is not given a name. How does pull you in, or push you away, as a reader?
The narrator is has Chinese parents, but ethnicity isn’t made the center of her experience. Were you able to trace the influence of her parents in the memoir?
The last few chapters address class in a direct manner. What type of reactions did you have to the build up and exploration of “belonging”?
Part of the magical surrealism is the heightened use of metaphor. What metaphors stuck out to you?
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