In “Trauma, Guilt, and Commitment: Deconstructive Bisexuality and Queer Desire in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life”, Christian Frantz argues that non-normative and undefined sexuality cannot neatly be classified within Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. Frantz acknowledges the potential usefulness of bisexuality as a category of identity and/or sexual behaviour; however, they also assert that any strict identificatory classification may not be useful to read the sexual (and romantic) identities of characters such as Jude and Willem in Yanagihara’s novel. Frantz acknowledges the problematic nature of defining sexuality in terms of current sexual behaviours rather than personal identification, a process which takes into consideration previous and current experiences of sexual activity and romantic entanglement, and argues that such a position constitutes the erasure of non-normative sexualities such as bisexuality. They also argue that terms such as “bisexuality”, “homosexuality”, and “heterosexuality” are partly based on past and current sexual behaviour and political ideology, but do not account for desire and the roots of such desire. Frantz’s chapter makes the case that, while these categories are sometimes useful, especially in terms of political organisation, they cannot be applied to every desiring person; and that desire is not characterised by the gender of one’s object choice but is influenced by a myriad of other factors, too. In their close reading of the complexities of desire in Yanagihara’s novel, then, Frantz theorises about sexual identity beyond the categories of homosexual or bisexual, arguing for a complete deconstruction of “sexual identity” in the form of monosexuality or bisexuality.