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We live in an era where diversity is celebrated, and minorities of all kinds are expected to be respected and included. Yet there are (sexual) minorities we can't even imagine, argues the author.
Multiple characters of different ages and backgrounds are connected, directly or indirectly, across a timeline starting several months before the end of 平成 to a few months after the start of 令和.
The general premise (feeling different, not fitting in) is one I like reading about and find easy to relate to. However, and even though the characters explained over and over how they felt, I found it hard to relate to them, as the difficulties they were supposed to be facing felt very exaggerated to me. The book works better if you take some things as a metaphor rather than at face value, I found.
The book is very well written, but definitely on the difficult side of the spectrum, with wide vocabulary and lots of theoretical musings on what it means to be human, to connect, to be accepted. For a book handling the sensitive subject of the variety of sexual desire, there is almost no NSFW or otherwise shocking content in there.