Detransition, Baby (Torrey Peters)
$18.64
The book that changed my life for the better. Torrey often writes of characters or experiences that can give me pause (Stag Dance), and I found both Ames and Reese deeply frustrating as characters, but overall I found this a beautiful examination of the trans experience and the different shapes families can take.
4 months ago
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Detransition, Baby
Joy Fowlkes
“This novel is delightfully slim, but it packs in so much thought about performing gender and found family.”
alyssa swigart
“funny, fun, earnest, honest. i love this book and reread it every few years”
Lida Richardson
“Okay so this one’s maybe too obvious to recommend, but I finally read it for the first time last year and Torrey Peters’s writing style is holy grail to me. She blends humor and pathos so effectively that I don’t even know if “blend” is the right word — one of the most painful scenes in the book is immediately preceded by series of pages that truly had me yucking it up, and it couldn’t have felt m”
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