A great story, and a page-turner that I stayed up late and missed doing other things to read.

I was pretty depressed before I read this, and to be honest I read it wanting to feel hurt, to plumb out the depths of my pain. Kimmy is horrific and traumatizing, and I think it does lend some insight to some of the many types of pain that trans people experience. But I didn't find it truly allowed me to hurt myself like I wanted, for which I'm grateful.

Incredible read, haunting

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There's a hopeful message that permeates the story, that despite extreme isolation and trauma and our own choice often being taken from us, we are each other's hope. There are many scenes in Kimmy that made me cry because this sense was so strongly contrasted with the hopeless descent that permeates the rest of the story, and I struggled to trust any feeling of hopefulness being thrown after that until the very end. I think there's a deeper lesson that can be taken from that