Review:
Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger is a passionate and insightful memoir that explores gender identity and sexuality. The most powerful aspect of this book is Krieger’s ability to immerse the reader in his perspective at each stage on the journey of his gender identity development. At the beginning of the memoir, the author identifies as a female lesbian. As he becomes aware of the ways in which this identity does not fully describe him, he is able to articulate each doubt and each subtle change in his self-concept in a way that is profoundly comprehensible to the reader. His awareness of his own psychological process is so precise that his gradual adoption of a more nuanced identity makes utter sense even to a reader who is utterly unfamiliar with the subject.