Detransition, Baby: A Novel
Torrey PetersReese almost had it all:
a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job
she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of
trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts.
The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy,
detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is
caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by
sleeping with married men.
Ames isn't happy either. He thought
detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that
decision cost him his relationship with Reese--and losing her meant
losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to
find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and 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. Torrey Peters
brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around
gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original,
witty, and deeply moving novel.
a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job
she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of
trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts.
The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy,
detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is
caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by
sleeping with married men.
Ames isn't happy either. He thought
detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that
decision cost him his relationship with Reese--and losing her meant
losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to
find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and 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. Torrey Peters
brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around
gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original,
witty, and deeply moving novel.
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