Detransition, Baby A Novel
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
12.01.2021
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
24,3/16,8/3,2 cm
Gewicht
598 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-593-13337-8
“Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”—Vulture
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the 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 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.
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Intricately crafted & beautiful
Reading the blurb for this book left me a little intimidated... The plot seemed pretty complicated and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to follow. But that initial fear blew over almost immediately once I started reading. The story is (as per the name of my review) beatifully crafted, and really takes you by the hand to explain all of the interpersonal dynamics, each character's relationship with their queerness, and their way to coming to terms with it. I considered myself educated on topics of queerness and trans* identites before reading 'detransition, baby', but learned so much from it that I didn't even know i had to learn. Not only the very underrepresented topic of detransitioning is depicted masterfully in this story, but so much more, such as female bonds, platonic/romantic love, pregnancy and all the difficult emotions that accompany it. And even this doesn't even cover half of the topics that peters manages to weave into this story in such a delicate way. This book truly has it all. An absolute MUST read! -
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Raw Depiction of Motherhood
An unexpected pregnancy brings three unlikely women together as they figure out motherhood, queerness and transness! This was such a raw and honest depiction of real life discussions, I really enjoyed these characters and their shared journey! I'm very excited to read "Stag Dance" by this author <3
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