Written on the Body
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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
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I found the story extremely difficult to follow. The author deliberately tries to disrupt readers' assumptions about the main character's gender, but I believe that her attempts to do so did not come from a place of understanding trans and nonbinary people's experiences of gender. I felt like the exercise was intended for people who aren't trans. I felt like she was using trans & nonbinary people as rhetorical objects.
