num_pages: 337
description: A whipsmart debut about three womentransgender and cisgenderwhose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender motherhood and sex.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 Reeseand 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 babyand that she's not sure whether she wants to keep itAmes wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional familyand 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.
language: English
title: Detransition, Baby
publisher: One World