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Detransition, baby / Torrey Peters.
Reese almost had it all. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier. When Ames' boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby, 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?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593133378
- Physical Description: 340 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Transgender women > Fiction. Transgender people > Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction. Pregnancy > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Sexual minorities > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Transgender fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A trans woman, her detransitioned ex and his cisgender lover build an unconventional family together in the wake of heartbreak and an unplanned pregnancy, in a book by the author of the novella, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones. - Baker & Taylor
A trans woman, her detransitioned ex, and his cisgender lover build an unconventional family together in the wake of heartbreak and an unplanned pregnancy. - Random House, Inc.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The lives of three womenâtransgender and cisgenderâcollide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in âone of the most celebrated novels of the yearâ (Time)
âReading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.ââVulture
One of the New York Timesâs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Time, Vogue, Esquire, Vulture, and Autostraddle
PEN/Hemingway Award Winner ⢠Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Gotham Book Prize ⢠Longlisted for The Womenâs Prize ⢠Roxane Gayâs Audacious Book Club Pick ⢠New York Times Editorsâ 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 Reeseâand 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 babyâand that she's not sure whether she wants to keep itâAmes wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional familyâand 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.
