This book has sections of literary brilliance and the main character is wonderfully developed. Yet at times, I found the book tedious. Perhaps it is just because I read it from my position as a cis-het Euro-American boomer male, but the sex scenes seemed excessive as if the author was stuck writing gay smut fic. This seemed to support a detrimental narrative that "all gay people ever talk about is sex". In spite of this flaw, the book is well worth the read