This book brilliantly blends different genres: self-writing, letters to friends and lovers, poetry, and even essays on illness and disability.
Language must reinvent itself to speak about pain, and they attempt to find more generous, more inclusive lexical fields. Throughout the book, they attempt to express the pain that occupies their body. They wonder why trans people are never mentioned when chronic illness is discussed, why the experiences of marginalized people with illness are not taken into account, and why diagnoses are only appropriate for white, straight, able-bodied, or slim people.