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DETRANSITION, BABY
A very smart and eye-opening debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.
In DETRANSITION, BABY, we are introduced to Reese, a trans woman who almost had everything she wanted: a loving relationship with Amy, a job she didn't mind, and potentially a family, the thing she always wanted. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of, that being a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing for her was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a very unhealthy pattern, avoiding her loneliness in self-destructive and even dangerous ways.
Ames isn't completely happy either, though he has taken a job as a man and has been dating his boss, a cis woman. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but it has cost him his relationship with Reese--and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is definitely over, he longs to find a way back to her to ground him the only way family can. When Ames's lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby--and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it--Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for - could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family--and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. This novel explores our deepest, darkest desires as women, especially the ones we may be too ashamed of to admit out loud. Peters's knows this world, she is a trans woman writer writing about characters who are flawed and angry. They come from extremely different places, but with a common goal: to examine and rethink womanhood.
Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. She also holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a master's in comparative literature from Dartmouth. Check out her profile in them.: https://bit.ly/2pC0XBq, written by Harron Walker, March 2018
Ames isn't completely happy either, though he has taken a job as a man and has been dating his boss, a cis woman. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but it has cost him his relationship with Reese--and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is definitely over, he longs to find a way back to her to ground him the only way family can. When Ames's lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby--and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it--Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for - could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family--and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. This novel explores our deepest, darkest desires as women, especially the ones we may be too ashamed of to admit out loud. Peters's knows this world, she is a trans woman writer writing about characters who are flawed and angry. They come from extremely different places, but with a common goal: to examine and rethink womanhood.
Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. She also holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a master's in comparative literature from Dartmouth. Check out her profile in them.: https://bit.ly/2pC0XBq, written by Harron Walker, March 2018
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