Darryl: A Novel

"Jackie Ess writes the feeling of being on the edge of a revelation better than anybody I’ve ever read. In her novel, the titular character, Darryl, narrates his adventure into the cuckolding lifestyle in short blog posts full of introspection and the sort of questions that lead you to realize that the life you have isn’t the one you want. It reminded me of nothing so much as my own early fumbling toward transition. Alternately meditative and razor-sharp, absurd and painfully real; Darryl probably isn’t the transgender novel you thought you wanted – but it is the one this moment calls for."