@glitternoodle Casey Plett wrote that she thought the structure (toying with conventions about resolution, James appearing like some kind of "second-chance" moment, the sudden blackout ending) invite you to continue the story on your own and realize that trans people have no conventional narrative, but that real life is just about "going on" not towards an already-known resolution but just a general hope. Except any hope in that ending has to be imposed on the story from the outside, which you're not really "invited" to do.

Dunno. Maybe I got way too excited only to find it's basically Trans Catcher in the Rye.