“Makes something very vulnerable comprehensible … A concise, efficient novel about gender incongruence, uneventful on the surface, but rich with inner drama. … Molly Øxnevad har succeeded very well in saying more between the lines than on the lines”
5/6, Fartein Horgar, Adresseavisen

“A kick in the pants to anyone who might think that the need for gender affirmation surgery has its origin in mental illness … From the very first paragraph it’s easy to see that Øxnevad knows how to construct a novel”
5/6, Joakim Tjøstheim, Dagbladet

“A good second novel with an extraordinarily powerful climax … wants to show the complex diversity of people’s inner lives, but also how some experience such great distance between one’s inner and outer lives that gender affirmation surgery is necessary … The most powerful scene in Walk Like a Woman comes when Liam and Tor finally make it to the appointment at the National Hospital … This scene is worth the book alone”
Gabriel Michael Vosgraff Moro, VG

“What makes the strongest impression in Walk Like a Woman is reading about the pain that a young transperson will accept in order to look like the person he wants to be … Liam is fixated on his breast binder, wearing it for so long stretches at a time that he gets dizzy and bruised. His ribs even break in one of these scenes. Within the form of this novel, Molly Øxnevad lifts physical discomfort to a level where it means little or nothing what opinions the reader otherwise might nurture in the trans debate”
Ingunn Økland, Aftenposten

“A touching roadmovie with a tight corset. In Walk Like a Woman Molly Øxnevad continues to create sensitive portraits of people and environments that we rarely see depicted in such ways in Norwegian literature … There’s plenty of tension in this barely 100 pages long novel – not least between the two main characters … The animosity from society around them is heavily felt on every stop they make, but there are also examples of a kind of rough humanity here … The novel provides an opportunity to see what lies beneath or beyond the discussion about whether it’s right or wrong to give young transpersons gender affirmative treatment”
Knut Hoem, NRK

“Molly Øxnevad has written a softly spoken story of what it means being a transperson, narrated from the inside … The novel portrays gender dysphoria, the discomfort caused by gender incongruence, in a down-to-earth, sensuous way … Øxnevad offers little in way of explanations or comparisons, but I wouldn’t accuse her of taking the reader’s preconceptions for granted either. I would rather understand the novel as an attempt to instill compassion irrespective of whether you understand or not, because perhaps one can be completely puzzled faced with other people’s suffering, yet still try to soothe them”
Thula Kopreitan, Morgenbladet

“Walk Like a Woman has real political edge … [The author] illustrates the incongruence between the experiences of the individual and the binary categories of the system in such a way that the reader feels it physically … there are also beautiful, humorous scenes that contrast with the pervading seriousness of the text. Still, the most beautiful ploy here – and perhaps the most persuasive – is Øxnevad’s simple way of showing how gender identity can both be an existential premise and something quite unremarkable. Because even though the novel’s nave is Liam’s road to the hospital, it takes time before it reveals where on the gender specter the two of them are. Together they are just Tor and Liam trying to figure out who they are to themselves and to each other”
Even Teistung, Klassekampen

“Belongs to the very best of Norwegian contemporary fiction … it is as if Øxnevad was born to portray all possible aspects of existence. She has an eye for details and can make even the most monotonous stretches of the E39 shine … Writing literature as powerful and and convincing as this is quite a feat!”
Magnus Rotevatn, Framtida.no