Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller

By Torrey Peters

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The lives of three women--transgender and cisgender--collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in "one of the most celebrated novels of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788167228
• ISBN13: 9781788167222
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 1.2" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Family, in All Its Complicated Forms

Detransition, Baby is a raw, unsentimental, and genuinely compelling exploration of what family can mean when the people building it don’t fit conventional templates. Torrey Peters follows three complicated people navigating an unconventional arrangement, and handles the complexity with honesty and care. At its heart this is a book about a deeply human longing: the desire to love, raise, and be responsible for another person. Family is the foundation of everything, and Peters understands that it can take forms that defy easy categorization. There is nothing romantic or idealized here, just real people, real stakes, and real mess. Where the book occasionally stumbles is in characters who tip from complexity into self-absorption, the self-fixation becomes wearying at moments. But the story holds. Peters has written something worth sitting with, honest, tender in unexpected places, and quietly courageous.