Book Review: The Vanishing Half
Soft, quiet, avoidant and thus achingly loud racial heartbreak
4 min readOct 20, 2020
I know I’m just launching straight in like a cannonball right now, but the very first thing that I must say about this book is that, as much as I can say this as a cis woman, the trans visibility in this book is so important and well done. It’s extremely rare (in fact, has this ever happened before this…