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Detransition, Baby

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Longlisted for the Pen/Hemingway Award One of the Ten Best Books of The Year: Entertainment Weekly One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Vogue, BuzzFeed, New York Public Library, Esquire, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Self, Vulture, Electric Lit, PopSugar, Town & Country, Shelf Awareness, The Rumpus, Autostraddle, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage Longlisted for The Women’s Prize Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick New York Times Editors’ Choice

Reese 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. Paperback Edition. 

Longlisted for the Pen/Hemingway Award One of the Ten Best Books of The Year: Entertainment Weekly One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Vogue, BuzzFeed, New York Public Library, Esquire, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Self, Vulture, Electric Lit, PopSugar, Town & Country, Shelf Awareness, The Rumpus, Autostraddle, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage Longlisted for The Women’s Prize Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick New York Times Editors’ Choice

Reese 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. Paperback Edition. 

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Lauren Swank
Took me a full evening to read!

A book about trans people written by a trans person! I know that doesn’t seem like a big deal but wow- it’s hard to come by! This novel is one you’ll fly through- eloquently written with a story about love you probably haven’t heard of in pop culture. Representation at its finest

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