“luminous, propulsive, tender, and full of light. Hansbury’s prose is both scathing and soulful, delivered with care and grace and aplomb. This novel’s warmth is palpable, and Hansbury has crafted a truly rare thing—a gift and a guide.” --Bryan Washington

“Goddamn, I loved this book. It's tough and sweet and smart about the places we come from and how we fight and flail to discover ourselves inside them. A gorgeous novel readers will absolutely live inside of." —CJ Hauser

“This gorgeous, propulsive novel is filled with beauty and danger, youth and wisdom, and the life-saving lifelines of counterculture.” --Michelle Tea

“a story of how latent queerness can point toward the exit from poverty and despair…. a book filled with compassion for all those ground down by the violence of class.” --McKenzie Wark

“This funny, defiant, and passionate novel [is] the coming-of-age, reckoning-with-gender story we have all needed for decades, the kind that can change and save your life.” —James Hannaham