So good I want to scream -- Carmen Maria Machado
Irresistible ...
Perhaps Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel? Witty, elegant and rigorously plotted -- Grace Lavery -
GuardianThe smartest novel I've read in ages ... it manages to be utterly savage & lacerating while also conveying endlessly expanding compassion. It's kind of a miracle. -- Garth Greenwell
Detransition, Baby is
emotionally generous, richly textured, and deeply intelligent - a vibrant and kaleidoscopic portrait of complicated women and their colliding lives. -- Claire Lombardo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
Detransition, Baby updates and transcends (trans-scends!) the Sex and the City model, while fully delivering its many satisfactions! ...
A noteworthy advance in the history of the novel! -- Elif Batuman
Riveting, insightful, and very funny ... an unforgettable portrait of three women, trans and cis, who wrestle with questions of motherhood and family-making. Destined to be a 21st century classic,
Detransition, Baby will definitely keep you up late and might destroy your book club, but in a good way. -- Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Torrey Peters just took everything that couldn't be done, and did it ...
Plenty of books are good; this book is alive. -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox
Peters confronts the unruliness of our desires, and our vitality as we struggle within their limits ... a dishy, engrossing new novel
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New YorkerWriting with alarming insight, Torrey Peters captures the grandiose, heartfelt and sometimes mangled aspirations of queer and trans people facing an unprecedented array of personal choice. By showing how gender transition (like divorce, or any transformative life event) can be simultaneously destabilizing and liberating, Peters makes trans culture relatable to all.
A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel. -- Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
I love
Detransition, Baby for its wit, its irreverence.
And I love it even more for its reverence-its reverence for the quest for womanhood, motherhood, selfhood. Torrey Peters evokes these characters with such fullness and compassion that they felt like dear friends to me.
This is an important book, and I couldn't put it down. -- Helen Philips, author of The Need
I loved [
Detransition, Baby] so, so much -
it's so smart, funny and sad about human nature and all our longings, hypocrisy, shame and sweetness. And it's fearlessly thought-provoking about gender. Such a literary feat and also such a great read. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Detransition, Baby is a landmark piece of trans literature - brutally honest and yet incredibly sensitive about trans living,
tremendously funny and sexy as hell. -- Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir
A visceral, funny exploration of sex and gender through a triad of people - trans and cis -rocked by an unexpected pregnancy -
Vanity FairSmart, funny, and bighearted. . . . A wonderfully original exploration of desire and the evolving shape of family [and] . . . a dishy contemporary drama. -
Kirkus starred reviewPossibly the most hotly anticipated work of transgender fiction ever -
Pink NewsPage-turning ... Through a careful narrative that laces humour into every paragraph, Peters paints a story of LGBT identity that will be engaging to any person who has struggled to define their place in the world -
New StatesmanFleishman is in Trouble meets
Transparent in this eye-opening, gender-bending exploration of parenthood. -
Oprah Magazine's Best Books of 2021Written with verve and humour, it's a must-read for 2021. -
StylistA uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit
About the Author
Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. @torreypeters