![]() It was nice to have a hero who was a sales consultant for the. I don't know Australia very well, but based on the handful of Aussie dudes I have met over the years, Kaye's blunt, well-meaning but not always perfect, working class characters struck me as well-drawn and convincing. It's light-hearted, engaging and I felt it had a lot of heart. In the same way that if you mentioned you didn't want to read Pride and Prejudice because you were worried it was about sharks, I would tell you there were no sharks in Pride and Prejudice. I offer this merely as a point of information. My feeling is it ain't: while it is definitely *about* those things, ultimately it's a sweet story about a man who has internalised a lot of stereotypes about masculinity, gender and being gay, slowly coming to terms with the constructness and harmfulness of those ideas, and learning to live as the man he both feels he is and wants to be. ![]() I've heard there are some concerns about this book femme-shaming and reinforcing toxic ideas about gender and queerness. ![]() I would even go so far as to say delightful. ![]() Well, this was basically a jolly nice read. ![]() Read this with a certain Glitterpirate on the rec of a certain Ed. ![]()
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