This Is My Body

How it reads

This Is My Body is memoir (body-positive memoir, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a big city setting, in the recent past, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are identity, coming of age and family. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 315 pages it's a quick read. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.