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In the last part, it gets pretentious. Kim writes letters to Grossmeer in English. In one of the last ones, they explain pompously their task of their generation to dig deeper in their traumata, unbury the inter-generational ones and squeeze them out like puss. Oversensitivity defined.

While it calls itself a novel, it's autobiographical. Or autofictional. Framed as a written confession to the Grossmeer (grandmother - a mix of German and French).
I constantly search what distinguishes Kim from a gay man. Body negativity. Their feeling of their body having no boundary. Only feeling themself when entered by someone else. Refusal of the masculine (gay) role. Kim tried that in their early twenties.

I'm working on broadening my literary horizon. More books by female authors, by young authors, from different cultures. Enough writers I read are gay. Often, that doesn't make a difference. But this is the first essentially queer book I read.
My expectations are low, the blurb deters me. The first 20 pages are better than hoped. Surprisingly, I like the style so far. This mix between gendering and Swiss oddities.