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careinthelibrary's review against another edition
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Brilliant character study but the writing held me at a distance emotionally.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Transphobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Outing
Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, and Classism
jem_carstairs's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Racism, Transphobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Outing
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Body shaming
camillatd's review against another edition
emotional
slow-paced
3.0
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Trumpet is undoubtedly good literature, but is it a good trans story? I would argue it maybe… isn’t a trans story at all. It’s a story about a trans person who is completely decentered from their own story, their own narrative. It’s about the stories that cis people tel themselves and others about this trans person, this man, after he’s gone. I raise an eyebrow at Jackie Kay’s claim of little research—I wonder, did she speak to trans people, trans men, while writing this book? I know it was the nineties—and I don’t discredit how groundbreaking this book was. Doubly, triply so for a Black lesbian writer writing the story of a Black trans man. I understand not wanting to write Joss’ perspective (almost at all)—it’s not the story at hand here, and it’s not Jackie’s voice. But that does leave me wanting—I envision more queer stories and queer futures in literature, more trans voices and writers and lives. Trans stories with trans people front and center, alive and complicated and full of life.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, Medical content, and Death of parent
noahsingh's review against another edition
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Racism, Transphobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Outing
Moderate: Body shaming, Medical content, and Alcohol
Minor: Homophobia, Dementia, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, and Dysphoria