I just felt lost for much of this book. The stories are sort of sci-fi, sort of fantasy, but mostly take off in directions that I could not or did not wish to follow. And it's a shame because there were some interesting moments in the middle of several of the tales that had some insight into the human condition and transgender issues before twirling off into the whatever. At the end of almost every tale, I was left wondering either "What just happened?" or "What's the point then?"

I already have a graphic memoir by the same author on hold at the library and I'm tempted to cancel it after reading this book, but I'm going to go ahead and read it anyway and see if it helps me understand these tales any better.

p.s., Oh, and the lettering irritated the hell out of me. There are serifs everywhere on every letter, and yet whoever did it cannot bother to completely cross the letter T? Aaarrgh!

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Exquisite and strange short stories, each one worth a volume. Transporting art combines precise architecture with round, brown bodies. ( )