"At last, we have the work of transgender bathos we didn't know we needed, but very much do...Ortberg's narrative is anything but linear- It skips back in time to mythic Greece, traipses across the landscape of contemporary pop culture and, in one wonderfully fabulist entry that would make Carmen Maria Machado proud, slips outside of time altogether...One of our smartest, most inventive humour writers, Ortberg combines bathos and the devotional into a revelation...By broadening what transgender memoir can do, the author is in good company with Viviane Namaste, who decades ago diagnosed autobiography as "the only discourse in which transsexuals are permitted to speak." Ortberg partakes of neither the damaging trope of tragic transness nor the sentimental sanctimony that we are 'permitted,' offering instead the comic and the transcendent."
Jordy Rosenberg, The New York Times

"A memoir comprised of the humorous essays that have become his trademark...Some are essays and some are scripts or imagined conversations; at first the chapters and interludes are distinct, but at a certain point they start to blend together. All are hilarious, infused with the type of magical thinking Lavery excels at. They weave Lavery's life experiences together with his historical and pop-cultural obsessions."
Claire Landsbaum, Vanity Fair