Worthy of the Event
An Essay

Electric, surprising and revelatory use of the memoiristic essay form. Blaxell’s passion for life lifts off every page: importantly Life Itself, not just her own. Her pursuit of life in all places, her ever-hauntedness by the legacies of imperialism and exploitative settlement are integral to her wo......more

Jumps between dense, embodied philosophy, pithy memoir and bizarro history with ease. Never suffers from the sense that it is trying too hard. Rather, it reads like a lifetime of inquiry corralled into something resembling an essay, every insight earned, lived in and sincere. Some chapters feel a li......more

unbelievable if you are reading this you should read this book......more

This eventful novel is worthy of a read. I’ll be using this as the gold standard now for all the future essays I read.......more

I feel grateful to have gotten to read this kaleidoscopic, voracious, sardonic, playful, sharp-elbowed, Biblically-accurate-angel of a book. Trans elders rarely get to do this (mainly because trans people don't often survive long enough to become elders), but Vivian is having so much *fun* with her......more