GENDER QUEER A Memoir

Maia Kobabe is the clear star of the show in this audio adaptation of eir 2014 graphic memoir. In a voice that’s reflective, inviting, and refreshingly frank, e guides listeners through eir personal journey of gender discovery. A full cast helps bring the visual elements to life, voicing Kobabe’s family, friends, colleagues, classmates, and others. Music and sound effects help ground listeners in each scene as Kobabe wrestles with questions of identity, attraction, sexuality, pronouns, coming out, and medical transphobia. While there are some missed opportunities—stretches of silence that could easily have been filled with more immersive sound effects—this is still an excellent production of an important book, one that many readers will be immensely glad to finally be able to listen to. L.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2024]