I wanted Henry to have role-models who (like real people) didn’t completely conform to those binaries.
That being said, one of the themes I sought to tackle in the book is toxic masculinity, and I don’t necessarily believe in really rigid gender constructs. There are times when the female characters display stereotypically ‘male’ attributes, and times when the male characters are quote ‘feminine’ – e.g., Henry’s Dad, Reuben, is the very emotional family caregiver. A lot of my friends both in high school and my adult life have always been male, which I definitely think helped me to be able to get into the mindset of a teenaged boy. Henry’s voice is one of the first aspects of the book that came to me he showed up pretty much fully formed (and quite insistent!). How difficult was it to write from a male perspective?
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