A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
February 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gay's Book Club
'Irresistible ... Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel' - Guardian
'A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' - Chris Kraus
'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' - Juliet Jacques
Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina's pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together?
'So good I want to scream' - Carmen Maria Machado
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
Industry Reviews
'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, Peters's book breezily plays with the structural conventions of literary realism ... Peters's novel approaches the well trodden topic of baby fever, and although it renders the specificity of trans community and subjectivity in vivid, electric prose, its real appeal is much wider.' - Grace Lavery
'The 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
