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A review by em_harring
A Year Without a Name: A Memoir by Cyrus Grace Dunham
I don't know how to rate this right now, so I'm not going to.
On one hand, the conversation around gender dysphoria and identity felt deeply relatable to me, and it was so wonderfully, horrifyingly well written.
On the other hand, the way that it's written feels, at time, a bit too try-hard. I don't believe every memoir or book needs to feel "authentic" because what is authenticity in 2021? However, the tone throughout the piece was dissonant and didn't quite work for me in some areas.
I also felt deeply uncomfortable with how needy and self reliant Cyrus depicted themselves as, but that's purely because that would make me deeply uncomfortable irl.
And there were some conversations around gender that felt incredibly reductive to me, but again that's incredibly subjective to my own experiences.
On one hand, the conversation around gender dysphoria and identity felt deeply relatable to me, and it was so wonderfully, horrifyingly well written.
On the other hand, the way that it's written feels, at time, a bit too try-hard. I don't believe every memoir or book needs to feel "authentic" because what is authenticity in 2021? However, the tone throughout the piece was dissonant and didn't quite work for me in some areas.
I also felt deeply uncomfortable with how needy and self reliant Cyrus depicted themselves as, but that's purely because that would make me deeply uncomfortable irl.
And there were some conversations around gender that felt incredibly reductive to me, but again that's incredibly subjective to my own experiences.