Hardcover, 337 pages
Published January 12th 2021 by One World
Original Title:Detransition, Baby
ISBN:593133374 , (ISBN13: 2147483647)
A whipsmart 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.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 ba
I just finished re-reading Detransition Baby and I will probably turn around and give it a third read before its startling, joyful, frontal attack on transphobic thinking (wrapped in a sweet comedic romance) settles down enough in my brain for me to be able to give it all the praise it deserves.
2023-07-16
What it doesn't have:A plot. Or even a real point.
2023-07-16