![]() ![]() Need a cup of tea now to help my heart recover from the pain and love. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd recommend this book to anyone in any format, and especially to cis people, who might be able to related to queer issues through this lens. whilst I wasn't struck by the narrator's choice of voices for the characters or the weird pauses as he hadn't read ahead, the story outweighed this greatly. Something to note about Chant is he didn’t make the story about the fact that Peter is trans, but it was rather about Peter’s story, him coming back. Everything about this story, including the bits that did hit me close to home and caused me pain, made it the most affecting story I've read/listened to in a very long time. Peter Darling explores manhood, sexuality as well as dealing with the fact that trauma, especially childhood trauma follows us, all while set in a mystical and beautiful setting of Neverland. Knowledge of the book not required, brief description in the notes for general. The love story in this, and the implication that the "real" people in Neverland were all there because they couldn't be who they really were back home (trans, gay etc), was perfect and heart wrenching. Based on the Neverland of Peter Darling, set before the events of the book. Wendy being Peter is such a wonderful way to make transness relatable to people who have grown up with this story. The premise is just astounding in both complexity and simplicity. I'd had it recommended by many trans friends, but I'm wary of things that hit too close to home or trigger my dysphoria (which this did in places as is unavoidable with trans themed fiction). As a trans guy, I needed to build myself up to listening to this. ![]()
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