Recounting her coming-of-age as a transgender Filipino-American person with albinism, Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs. Rather than flaying her identities one by one, she examines the links between them to illustrate that it is here, in the messy overlap, that a person is made. “I was an outcast among outcasts,” she writes of her earliest years in America, “but I didn’t feel despair because I’d come to accept the blessing of my unique experience.”