Cactus Country is a lucid and tender coming-of-age memoir of class and gender expression. With an enjoyable ease, Zoë Bossiere vividly paints the Tucson desert, the colorful residents of the trailer park, which gives the memoir its title, and the search for understanding and acceptance. Explores a young person’s gender journey without prescriptiveness but rather sensitivity and care.
Cactus Country by Zoë Bossiere, (List Price: $27, Abrams Press, 9781419773181, May 2024)
Reviewed by Luis Correa, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia