I extended and clenched my fingers repeatedly then tapped my lip. ‘Georgie and Gurdeep… They both have the gay, right? And you have the Jewishness? And what about your birth mother? You told me she was cancerous? No, because those statements are wrong. You’d never say those things. People are gay or ace or bi or whatever. People are a product of one culture or several. Some people have cancer or flu or, I don’t know, gangrene. Being a thing is different to having a thing. Do you see?’

— Livid Skies by SI CLARKE (Mars Colony, #2) (29%)