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The book is about an affair between the main character—who is unnamed and whose gender is never specified—and a married woman. It is, very simply, a story about love in all its senses. The descriptions throughout the book are visceral, emotional, heartfelt. The words are alive. I cant explain Wintersons writing properly, except to say that she is amazing at capturing emotion.

Leaving the gender of the main character unknown is genius and is, for me, one element that really sets the book apart from any other well-written story about love. By doing this—and by writing the character as such that the gender really could go either way—the reader is left undistracted by the mechanics of the affair and is instead able to focus on the emotion. There are times in the story that I imagined the main character as a male and other times as a female—and there is backstory that has the main character in relationships with both males and females. What this serves to do is strip love down to nothing more (and nothing less) than an emotion. It"s hard to relate how well this works, but when you"re left reading about a relationship that cannot be categorized as either homosexual or heterosexual, it somehow opens up that relationship and allows the reader to better explore the nonphysical and metaphysical elements of love.

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