This sequel continues the theme of found family from the first book, and is bursting at the seams with several themes common to a lot of disabled, queer, and trans experiences: dysphoria, dissociation and depersonalization, healing from traumatic childhoods, gender fluidity, to name just a few.
> Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ’t!
The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1, 188-191
One of my
> Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not
like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.
- Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)