On the day that Jesse Petrie, her partner of several years, told her she was transitioning to a woman, Emma Batchelor’s life changed forever. She hadn’t seen the bombshell coming and it plunged her into depression, doubts about her sexuality, and thoughts of suicide.
is “autofiction” and cleaves closely to Batchelor’s own experience: it is the story of a relationship in which one partner becomes a woman. The Canberra-based Batchelor says as she is the writer of the book, one of the people on which it is based, and a central character in it, she feels “everything is intertwined”.
Perhaps the most famous recent example of autofiction is the six acclaimed novels by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. Batchelor says her book is more true than not, and she tinkered only with a few things about her job at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility and the way some people are portrayed.
“Also I really liked that the reader had to fill in the blanks a little bit. I was fine with that. I just didn’t want to speak for her or speak for her experiences as a transgender woman because as a cisgender woman that’s not my place.”
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